Snow-in-summer - Cerastium tomentosum
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Snow-in-summer - Cerastium tomentosum | dylan | Keynsham Memorial Park | 10 Jul 2022, 3:53 p.m. | 6 Jul 2022, 10:27 a.m. | |
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Snow-in-summer - Cerastium tomentosum | dylan | Keynsham Memorial Park | 10 Jul 2022, 3:53 p.m. | 6 Jul 2022, 10:27 a.m. | |
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Snow-in-summer - Cerastium tomentosum | dylan | Bristol | 21 Dec 2024, 12:22 a.m. | 1 Jun 2023, 6:47 p.m. |
Species Description
Stace 4:
Cerastium tomentosum L. - Snow-in-summer
Rampant mat-forming perennial with strong ascending to decumbent vegetative and flowering shoots to 40cm, densely whitish-tomentose with matted eglandular hairs; petals about 2x as long as sepals; styles 5; 2n=72. Neophyte-naturalised; commonly cultivated in rock gardens; naturalised widely in British Isles in dry places; Italy and Sicily. Part of a difficult complex of taxa, others of which, especially C. biebersteinii DC., from Crimea, and C. decalvans Schloss. & Vuk., from Balkans, have been recorded in error. C. tomentosum is extremely variable in Italy and Sicily and several of the variants occur in British Isles.
Key:
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Leaves and upper parts of stems with predominantly densely matted or long (>1mm) shaggy hairs
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Leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, densely tomentose with matted hairs; most stems wit >4 flowers; lowland