Rank Species | Genus Cerastium Higher classification Cerastium | |
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Similar Cerastium fontanum, Cerastium, Caryophyllaceae, Cerastium arvense, Veronica arvensis | ||
Tertiary ingredients of cerastium glomeratum formulations pankaj oudhia s medicinal plant database
Cerastium glomeratum is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names sticky mouse-ear chickweed and clammy chickweed. It is probably native to Eurasia but it is known on most continents as an introduced species. It grows in many types of habitat.
Contents
- Tertiary ingredients of cerastium glomeratum formulations pankaj oudhia s medicinal plant database
- Description
- Uses
- References
Description
This is an annual herb growing from a slender taproot. It produces a branched, hairy stem up to 40 or 45 centimeters tall. The hairy leaves are up to 2 or 3 centimeters long. The inflorescence bears as few as 3 or as many as 50 small flowers. The flower has five hairy green sepals which are occasionally red-tipped, and five white two-lobed petals which are a few millimeters long and generally shorter than the sepals. Some flowers lack petals. The fruit is a capsule less than a centimeter long which is tipped with ten tiny teeth.
Uses
The leaves and shoots were used as a wild food in ancient China.
