Three-Column Stalk

A perennial loose- grass herb with ascending or erect stems , rooting in the lower nodes, up to 20 cm long, in the upper part with glandular pubescence. The leaves are opposite, oblong to linear, 1-2 cm long and up to 2.5-4 mm wide, upper - sometimes with glandular pubescence.

Flowers on glandular pedicels , collected in the apical forks inflorescence. When flowering, the pedicels deviate downward. Calyx with 5 blunt sepals 4-5.5 mm long. The petals are white, 1.5-2.5 times longer than the calyx, with an incision up to one third of the length. Three columns, rarely four.

The fruit is an oblong shaped box that opens with six teeth. Seeds are numerous, small.

Eurasian and North American arcto-alpine plant found in alpine and subalpine meadows and in the moss-lichen tundra.

Cerastium cerastoides ( L. ) Britton ,Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 5: 152 (1894) ["cerastioides"]. - Stellaria cerastoides L. , Sp. Pl. 1: 422 (1753).

Synonyms

• Arenaria trigyna ( Vill. ) Shinners , 1962
• Cerastium argaeum Boiss. & Balansa , 1859
• Cerastium elegans Fisch. ex ser. , 1824
• Cerastium lagascanum C.Vicioso , 1946
• Cerastium lapponicum Crantz , 1766
• Cerastium refractum All. , 1785
• Cerastium rupestre fisch. ex Ser., 1824
• Cerastium stellarioides Hartm. , 1820
• Cerastium trigynum Vill., 1779
• Dichodon argaeum (Boiss. & Balansa) Ikonn. 1973
• Dichodon cerastoides (L.) Rchb. , 1841
• Provancheria cerastoides (L.) B. Boivin , 1966
• Stellaria cerastoides L., 1753 basionym

other.

• Khalilov E. Kh. Genus 284. Cerastium L. - Jasolka // Flora of Azerbaijan / Ch. ed. D.I. Sosnovsky , ed. volumes I.I. Karjagin . - Baku: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR, 1952. - T. 3. - S. 280.
• Shishkin B.K. Genus 464. Stalk - Cerastium L. // Flora of the USSR : in 30 t / h. ed. V.L. Komarov . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1936. - T. 6 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin . - S. 435-436. - 956, XXXVI p. - 5200 copies.