Cerastium Cerastium, (Bast.) O. Schwarz

2. C. dubium (Bast.) O. Schwarz View in CoL , A/z/Z. Thür. Bot. Ges. 1 (1): 98 (1949)

(C. anomalum Waldst. & Kit.). Annual with numerous erect, minutely viscid-glandular stems up to 40 cm. Leaves 10- 30 x 1 -2 mm, linear to linear-oblong, obtuse to subacute, glabrous or minutely viscid-glandular. Inflorescence of lax-flowered dichasia; pedicels up to 15 cm, slender, with numerous minute viscid glands; bracts herbaceous. Sepals 5-6 mm, ovate-lanceolate, margin and apex scarious, minutely viscid-glandular; petals 1 | as long as sepals, bifid; styles 3. Capsule twice as long as sepals, oblong-ovoid; teeth patent. Seeds 0-6 mm, pale brown, tuberculate. 2/z = 38. Mainly in C. & S.E. Europe, but extending to W. France, Sicilia, S. Poland and C. Russia. Au Bu Cz Ga Ge Gr Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (C, W, K, E) Si Tu.