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Genus: Cerastium
Life
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> Family: Caryophyliaceae
About 100 species (almost cosmopolitan
but mainly N temperate regions of the Old World), with
six species native to southern Africa and a further two species that
are cultivated in the region.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI) and
Flora of
Zimbabwe.
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Cerastium arabidis
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Cerastium capense |
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Cerastium dichotomum |
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Cerastium fontanum |
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Cerastium glomeratum
See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Cerastium indicum |
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Other species, cultivated in southern Africa
List from Glen (2002).
Cerastium grandiflorum
Native to the Balkans. |
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Cerastium tomentosum (Snow-in-summer)
Native from Italy to western Asia. |
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