. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 5. Cerastium brachypodum ( Robinson. Short-stalked Chickweed. Fig. 1767. Cerastium nutans var. brachypodum Engelm. ; A. Gray. Man. Ed. 5, 94. 1867. Cerastium brachypodium Robinson ; Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 150. 1894. Cerastium 'brachypodium compactum Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. 29: 278. 1894. Annual, light green, viscid-pubescent or pu- berulent all over, stems tuf


. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 5. Cerastium brachypodum ( Robinson. Short-stalked Chickweed. Fig. 1767. Cerastium nutans var. brachypodum Engelm. ; A. Gray. Man. Ed. 5, 94. 1867. Cerastium brachypodium Robinson ; Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 150. 1894. Cerastium 'brachypodium compactum Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. 29: 278. 1894. Annual, light green, viscid-pubescent or pu- berulent all over, stems tufted, erect, 3'-io' tall. Lower and basal leaves oblanceolate or spatulate, obtuse or subacute at the , 3"-i2" long, narrowed into short petioles, the upper linear or linear-oblong, acute, sessile, sometimes erect- appressed ; cymes terminal, few-several-flowered ; flowers about 2" broad; fruiting pedicels, or some of them, deflexed, not more than twice as long as the calyx; capsules straight or slightly curved upward, 2-3 times as long as the calyx. In dry soil, southwestern Illinois and Missouri to Nebraska. South Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Arizona and Mexico. March-July.


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