Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 54: 247 (1913) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Naturalised
Annual with slender taproot; hairs glandular and eglandular. Stems erect or ascending, 1–15(–23) cm long. Leaves 2–12 mm long, 1–5(–7) mm wide; rosette leaves oblanceolate-elliptic, petioles to 5 mm long; upper leaves sessile, ovate. Inflorescence lax, few-flowered; bract margins broadly scarious. Flowers (4–)5-merous; pedicels to 5 mm long; calyx glandular-pilose, sepals ovate, 2.5–5 mm long, acute, margins narrowly to broadly scarious; petals more or less half sepal length or less, acute, entire or with 1–2 acute lateral teeth; styles 4–5. Capsule straight to slightly curved, 3.5–7 mm long; seeds reddish-brown, finely minutely asperate-tuberculate, 0.4–0.5 mm diam. Flowers Aug.–Nov.
*EGL, *EGU, *GipP, *Glep, *Gold, *LoM, *NIS, *SnM, *VVP, *Wim. Also naturalised WA, SA, NSW, Tas. Native to the Mediterranean area. A widespread and sometimes abundant weed of disturbed ground, lawns and waste places.
Except for Eichler (1965), the name 'Cerastium semidecandrum' has been universally misapplied in Australia to this common weed.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Lowan Mallee | present | naturalised | |
Wimmera | present | naturalised | |
Glenelg Plain | present | introduced | |
Victorian Volcanic Plain | present | naturalised | |
Gippsland Plain | present | naturalised | |
Goldfields | present | naturalised | |
Northern Inland Slopes | present | naturalised | |
East Gippsland Lowlands | present | introduced | |
East Gippsland Uplands | present | naturalised | |
Snowy Mountains | present | naturalised |
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Western Australia |
South Australia |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |