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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cerastium dubium
|accepted_authority=(Bastard) Guépin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Maine et Loire ed.
|place=2, 1: 267. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|common_names=Anomalous mouse-ear chickweed
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Stellaria dubia
|authority=Bastard
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cerastium anomalum
|authority=Waldstein & Kitaibel
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dichodon viscidum
|authority=(M. Bieberstein) Holub
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Cerastium;Cerastium dubium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cerastium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cerastium dubium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 75
|treatment_page=page 85
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, taprooted. <b>Stems</b> erect, many-branched from base, 10–40 cm, minutely viscid-glandular; small axillary tufts of leaves usually absent. <b>Leaves</b> not marcescent, distal sessile, proximal spatulate; blade linear or linear- lanceolate to linear-oblong, 10–30 × 1–4 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, glabrous or sparsely and minutely viscid-glandular. <b>Inflorescences</b> lax, 3–21(–30)-flowered cymes; bracts narrowly lanceolate, glandular-pubescent. <b>Pedicels</b> erect, slender, 2–15 mm, 0.5–3 times as long as sepals, glandular-puberulent Flowers: sepals ovate-lanceolate, 5–6 mm, margins narrow, apex acute to obtuse, minutely viscid-glandular; petals oblanceolate, 5–8 mm, 1.5 times as long as sepals, apex 2-fid; stamens 10; styles 3(–4). <b>Capsules</b> oblong-ovoid, straight, 8–11 mm, ca. 2 times as long as sepals; teeth 6, occasionally 8, erect to spreading, margins convolute. <b>Seeds</b> pale brown, ovate, 0.6 mm diam., tuberculate; testa not inflated. <b>2n</b> = 36, 38.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Alien weed of cultivated land
|elevation=200-800 m
|distribution=Ark.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;Miss.;Ohio;Oreg.;Tenn.;Va.;Wash.;s Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p>First collected in North America in 1966 in Washington, <i>Cerastium dubium</i> has now been gathered from many widely scattered sites, and appears to be spreading rapidly.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=shildneck1986a
|text=Shildneck, P. and A. G. Jones. 1986. Cerastium dubium (Caryophyllaceae) new for the eastern half of North America (a comparison with sympatric Cerastium species, including cytological data). Castanea 51: 49–55.
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name=Cerastium dubium
|author=
|authority=(Bastard) Guépin
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cerastium anomalum;Dichodon viscidum
|basionyms=Stellaria dubia
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Alien weed of cultivated land
|elevation=200-800 m
|distribution=Ark.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;Miss.;Ohio;Oreg.;Tenn.;Va.;Wash.;s Europe;Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=shildneck1986a
|publication title=Fl. Maine et Loire ed.
|publication year=1838
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_173.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Cerastium
|species=Cerastium dubium
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