Cerastium Cerastium, Viv.

46. C. ligusticum Viv. View in CoL , Elench. Pl. Horti. Bot. 15 (1802).

Annual up to 30 cm; stem with fine glandular and occasional eglandular hairs. Lower leaves spathulate, cauline elliptical or oblong, hairy. Pedicels much longer than sepals; bracts herbaceous or scarious at most for | of their length. Sepals 3-8 mm, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, margin scarious, with numerous glandular hairs, with or without eglandular hairs usually not exceeding the apex; petals l-j-2 times as long as sepals, bifid for up to I of their length, glabrous; stamens 5-10; styles 5. Capsule 6-7 mm. Seeds 0-5-0-9 mm, brown, sharply and minutely tuberculate. E. & C. Mediterranean region. Al Co Cr It Ju Sa Si. 1 Bracts scarious for -j- of their length (d) subsp. trichogynum 1 Bracts herbaceous or very slightly scarious 2 Sepals 7-8 mm; seeds 0-7-0-9 mm (c) subsp. granulatum 2Sepals 3-6 mm; seeds 0-5-0-65 mm 3 Plant not more than 7 cm; leaves not more than 6 mm; sepals 3-4 mm (b) subsp. palustre 3Plant up to 15 cm; leaves up to 20 mm; sepals 4-6 mm (a) subsp. ligusticum