| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium arvense | Field Chickweed | Disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. Introduced at scattered locations in ne. North America, including MD and NJ (FNA). |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium brachypetalum | Gray Mouse-ear | Lawns, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. The reports of C. tetrandrum for e. VA in Fernald (1950) and Gleason & Cronquist (1952) are actually this species. |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium brachypodum | Disturbed areas, roadsides, fields, lawns. | IL west to AB and OR, south to NC, nc. GA (Jones & Coile 1988), and AZ. This taxon is perhaps only introduced in the eastern parts of our region from farther west. |  | |
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium diffusum | Sea Mouse-ear | Disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium fontanum ssp. vulgare | Common Mouse-ear | Fields, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium glomeratum | Sticky Mouse-ear | Fields, disturbed areas, lawns. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium nutans | Alluvial forests, bottomlands, moist forests. | NS west to NT, south to SC, GA, AZ, Mexico, and OR. |  | |
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium parvum | Pygmy Starwort | Ditches and other moist, disturbed areas. | Native of South America. | |
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium pumilum | Dwarf Mouse-ear | Disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium semidecandrum | Little Mouse-ear | Disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. Reported for SC by Nelson & Kelly (1997). |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium strictum | American Field Chickweed, Prairie Chickweed | Prairies, pastures, other open, sandy or gravelly areas. | South to NJ, MD, VA, OH, IN, IL, MO, NM, and CA. |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium tomentosum | Snow-in-summer | Disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. This species is "cultivated and sometimes escaped" in scattered locations in PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993; Rhoads & Block 2007). First reported for NC by Pittillo & Brown (1988). |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium velutinum var. velutinum | Field Mouse-ear, Starry Grasswort | Rocky river-scour areas, dry limestone bluffs, other open situations. | NY and s. ON west to MN, south to VA, TN, and n. AR. |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Cerastium velutinum var. villosissimum | Octoraro Creek Chickweed | Serpentine barrens. | This taxon is highly restricted, found only at a few stations in the serpentine barrens of Chester County, PA, and Cecil County, MD (Gustafson et al. 2003). |  |
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