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Crimean Snow-in-summer
Cerastium biebersteinii
Cerastium biebersteinii, the boreal chickweed, is an ornamental plant in the genus Cerastium and the family Caryophyllaceae. It is an endemic of the Crimea. The species is named after a German botanist Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein.
From the article Cerastium biebersteinii on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The plant is perennial and herbaceous. The stem is 15–25 centimeters (5.9–9.8 in) high. The leaves are whitish and tomentose, flat or linear prolonged, a bit acute, smooth-edged 0.2–3 centimeters long and 1–9 millimeters wide. The flowers are white, 1.5–2.2 centimeters in diameter, situated in cymes on top of the sprout. Blooming period is from the end of April to the end of May.
Range & habitat
The Crimea is the unique natural habitat of this plant. It is also present in Crimean yayla grass.
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 160331.