Cerastium
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Description
Annual or perennial herbs, often glandular hairy, rather small, often caespitose, erect, procumbent or prostrate.
Leaves exstipulate, sessile or shortly petiolate.
Flowers solitary or in few- to many-flowered dichasia, axillary or terminal.
Sepals 5 (or 4), free, often with scarious margin.
Petals 5 (or 4), white, eMarginate to bifid up to nearly half their length, rarely absent.
Stamens 5 or most often 10 (or 8) inserted on a disc.
Ovary (3-)5-carpellate, with numerous ovules;
Capsule with twice as many teeth as there are styles, often curved and exserted from the calyx;
Seeds reniform, spherical to broadly ovoid or compressed, verrucose.