Cerastium capense Sond.

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Caryophyllaceae > Cerastium

Characteristics

Annual herb, up to 0.45 m high, glandular-hairy. Leaves opposite, obovate or oblong. Flowers in open cymes. Sepals pilose and glandular-hairy below apex. Petals white, shorter than sepals, emarginate. Flowering time Aug.-Jan. Fruit elongating to 1.5-2.0x as long as sepals, 7-12 x 2 mm.
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Glandular-hairy annual, up to 400 mm tall, with no taproot. Leaves opposite, obovate or oblong. Flowers in open cymes, petals white, shorter than sepals, shallowly notched. Fruit a cylindrical, papery capsule, ± twice as long as sepals, splitting into 10 lobes above.
Annual herb, 0.03-0.45 m high. Stems erect, slender. Leaves sessile; blade narrowly ovate. Flowers: style clothed with papillae all the way; corolla white. Fruit a membranous capsule, splitting into 10 short lobes above.
A herb. It is erect and slender and grows 40 cm tall. It grows each year from seed. The leaves are narrowly oval and without a stalk. The flowers are white. The fruit is a capsule that splits into 10 lobes.
Erect, slender annual herb, up to 400 mm tall. Leaves narrowly ovate, sessile. Style clothed with papillae all the way. Fruit a membranous capsule, splitting into 10 short lobes above. Flowers white.
Glandular-hairy annual to 40 cm. Leaves opposite, obovate or oblong. Flowers in open cymes, white, petals shorter than sepals, emarginate. Fruits elongating to twice as long as sepals.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.4
Root system tap-root
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a subtropical plant.
Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The young plant is eaten as a potherb.
Uses medicinal potherb
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Potherb (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 5 - 10
Germination temperacture (C°) 15
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Cerastium capense world distribution map, present in Lesotho and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:152146-1
WFO ID wfo-0000595360
COL ID SK5G
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Cerastium capense