Cerastium cerastoides (L.) Britton

En: starwort chickweed, mountain chickweed, starwort mouse-ear chickweed
Fr: céraiste à trois styles, céraiste faux-céraiste
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Circumpolar; S to nLab., w/nwNfld.; snowbeds.

[=Stellaria cerastoides L. (basionym)]
[=Arenaria trigyna (Vill.) Shinners]
[=Cerastium cerastoides (L) Britton var. foliosum Kozhevn.]
[=Cerastium lapponicum Crantz]
[=Cerastium trigynum Vill.]
[=Dichodon cerastoides (L.) Rchb.]
[=Provancheria cerastoides (L.) B.Boivin, as P. cerastioides]

[In insular Nfld., Cerastium cerastoides was historically known from a single collection at Barr'd Harbour Hill, nwNfld., collected in 1925 (Bouchard et al. 1991).  Recently, reports were verified of Cerastium cerastoides from Doctor Brook, collected in 2015 by Claudia Hanel and J. Lewis, and the Serpentine Tablelands (GMNP), collected in 1978 by O.E.Olsen. Specimens are deposited in the MUN"s Grendfell Campus Herbarium.]

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