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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Caryophyllaceae
Cerastium nutans Raf. var. nutans
nodding chickweed
Cerastium: from Greek keras, "a horn," referring to the shape of the seed capsule
nutans: nodding or drooping, usually the flowers
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | annual/perennial, 4"-18" tall forb, softer, leafier than non-natives and with sticky hairs |
| Flower: | white, 5-parted, 1/4"-1/3" wide, stalked; petal 2-lobed; blunt sepals often with gland-tipped hairs;  inflorescence a more or less open, terminal, branched cluster (cyme); blooms April-July |
| Fruit: | cylindrical capsule |
| Leaf: | narrow |
| Habitat: | woods, openings |
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