USDA and NRCS Identifier NRCS Logo
USDA.gov Web Site PLANTS photo banner
PLANTS Home about PLANTS PLANTS Team Partners of PLANTS What's New at PLANTS National Plant Data Center Web Site Help using PLANTS Contact PLANTS
 
 Search the PLANTS Web site
 Name Search

PLANTS Topics
 
 
PLANTS Image Gallery
 
 
Download PLANTS data
 
 
Related tools
 
 
 
You are here: Home / PLANTS Profile Printer-Friendly Printer-Friendly
PLANTS Profile
Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Nunavut

 

Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet
big chickweed

       
Symbol:    
Group:    
Family:    
Duration:    
Growth Habit:    
Native Status:  
  
  
  
  
  



Click on the image below to enlarge it and download a high-resolution JPEG file.
Photo of Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet
Steve Hurst. Provided by ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. United States, MD, Beltsville. Usage Requirements.
 
More Information:
 

Images:
Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet

Click on a thumbnail to view an image, or see all the Cerastium thumbnails at the PLANTS Gallery
View a larger version of this image and Profile page for Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet
 

Synonyms:
Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet

  CEAD Cerastium adsurgens Greene
  CEFOH Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. holosteoides auct. non (Fr.) Salman, van Ommering & de Voogd
  CEFOT Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. triviale (Link) Jalas
  CEHO Cerastium holosteoides auct. non Fr.
  CEHOV Cerastium holosteoides Fr. var. vulgare (Hartm.) Hyl.
  CETR10 Cerastium triviale Link
  CEVU Cerastium vulgatum L. 1762, non 1755
  CEVUH Cerastium vulgatum L. var. hirsutum Fr.
  CEVUH2 Cerastium vulgatum L. var. holosteoides auct. non (Fr.) Wahlenb.
 

Distribution:
Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet

View Native Status
Distribution Map Legend

See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:

USA (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)
 

Related Taxa:
Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet

View 42 genera in Caryophyllaceae, 28 species in Cerastium, 2 subspecies in Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
 

Classification:
Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet

Click on a scientific name below to expand it in the PLANTS Classification Report.
   
Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass Caryophyllidae
Order Caryophyllales
Family Caryophyllaceae – Pink family
Genus Cerastium L. – mouse-ear chickweed
Species Cerastium fontanum Baumg. – common mouse-ear chickweed
Subspecies Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet – big chickweed
 

U.S. Weed Information:
Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet

Cerastium fontanum
mouse-ear chickweed
Cerastium vulgatum
big chickweed
mouseear chickweed

The related entities and synonyms italicized and indented above can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below. This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.

KY        Haragan, P.D. 1991. Weeds of Kentucky and adjacent states: a field guide. The University Press of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky. 278pp.
N'EAST        Uva, R.H., J.C. Neal, & J.M. DiTomaso. 1997. Weeds of the Northeast. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York. 397pp.
NE&GP        Stubbendieck, J., G.Y. Friisoe, & M.R. Bolick. 1994. Weeds of Nebraska and the Great Plains. Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Lincoln, Nebraska. 589pp.
SWSS        Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.
 

Introduced Information:
Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet

This plant is introduced to some part of the PLANTS Floristic Area, though it may be native in other parts. Click on link below for a partial or complete list of PFA introduced plants.

Scientific Name= A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | all
Common Name= A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | all
 

Wetland Indicator Status:
Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet

Cerastium vulgatum:

Nat. Ind. Reg. 1 Reg. 2 Reg. 3 Reg. 4 Reg. 5 Reg. 6 Reg. 7 Reg. 8 Reg. 9 Reg. 0 Reg. A Reg. C Reg. H
FACU-,FAC- FACU- FAC- FACU FACU FACU FACU FACU- FACU FACU FACU NI NO FACU
Interpreting Wetland Indicator Status
 

More Accounts and Images:
Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet

View photographs from CalPhotos.

View species account and distribution map from Flora of North America (FNA).

View species account and distribution from USF Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 523831.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

View photographs and distribution from University of Washington Burke Museum.

View species account and photographs from University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Freckmann Herbarium.

 
 
Time Generated: 10/07/2008 07:41 PM MDT