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Cerastium aleuticum
Also called Aleutian Mouse Ear Chickweed
Cerastium aleuticum, common name Aleutian mouse-ear chickweed, is a plant species endemic to the US State of Alaska. It is found only on islands, not on the Alaskan mainland: Aleutian, St. Lawrence, St. Paul, Popof, and Kodiak Islands. It is found on rocky slopes and mountainsides up to an elevation of 700 m (2,300 ft).
Cerastium aleuticum is a perennial herb spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Stems are branched, up to 7 cm (2.8 in) long, covered with soft hairs. Flowers are single or in groups of 2 or 3, white. Capsules are cylindrical, up to 11 mm long.
Alpine chickweed · Arctic Mouse Ear · Field chickweed · Boreal chickweed · Gray chickweed · Fourstamen chickweed · Common mouse-ear chickweed · Sticky chickweed · Common Mouse Ear · Cerastium ligusticum · Shetland Mouse Ear · European chickweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cerastium aleuticum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
