Sticky Mouse-Ear Chickweed
Cerastium glomeratum
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Sticky Mouse-Ear Chickweed
Identify Sticky Mouse-Ear Chickweed by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Sticky hairy foliage.
- Confirm leaf surface: Pubescent.
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Cyme.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Karnataka.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cerastium glomeratum
- Genus
- Cerastium
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Distribution
- India, Bhutan, Nepal
- Found in India
- Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Karnataka
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- PubescentrecordedCovered in short, soft hairs.“The bracts are green, hairy and generally similar to the leaves.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Characters marked “recorded” are for Sticky Mouse-Ear Chickweed itself; the rest are typical of the Caryophyllaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
- Flower arrangement
- CymerecordedA branched cluster where the central/terminal flower opens first.“The inflorescence bears as few as 3 or as many as 50 small, dioecious flowers arranged in a cyme and borne on very short pedicels.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- CapsulerecordedA dry fruit from a fused ovary that splits open at maturity to release seeds.“The fruit is a capsule less than a centimeter long which is tipped with ten tiny teeth.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
Characters marked “recorded” are for Sticky Mouse-Ear Chickweed itself; the rest are typical of the Caryophyllaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Malayalam
- സെരാസ്റ്റിയം ഗ്ലോമെറാറ്റം, ക്ലാമി ചിക്ക്വീഡ്, സ്റ്റിക്കി മൗസ്-ഇയർ ചിക്ക്വീഡ്
About Sticky Mouse-Ear Chickweed
Sticky Mouse-Ear Chickweed (Cerastium glomeratum) is a herb in the Caryophyllaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand and 1 other states. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Uses
Locally it is grown for parts that are eaten.
Caryophyllaceae
Pink Family
Sticky Mouse-Ear Chickweed belongs to the Caryophyllaceae family.
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