Literature for Cerastium fontanum subsp. triviale Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Cerastium fontanum Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
Caryophyllaceae -- The Pink Family	Bibliography
Cerastium fontanum

General Information
Distribution	Native to Eurasia, widely naturalized.
Habit	Matted, short-lived perennial herbs with short, depressed, basal, lateral shoots; stems 3-7 dm long, hirsute to sometimes glandular.
Leaves	Leaves oblanceolate to oblong or elliptic-ovate, 10-25 mm long, 3-10 mm wide, both surfaces conspicuously hirsute, sessile.
Flowers	Flowers in terminal, rather compact, dichotomous cymes, but in fruit becoming more open and the lower pedicels divergent to reflexed and 2-4 times as long as calyx; sepals 3-6.5 mm long, hirsute, margins scarious; petals white, 4-5 mm long, apex slightly cleft.
Fruit	Capsules cylindrical, curved, 9-12 mm long.
Seeds	Seeds reddish brown, 0.4-0.8 mm long, tuberculate.
Chromosomes	2n = 126, 136-152, 160