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|accepted_name=Cerastium fischerianum
|accepted_authority=Seringe
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|place=1: 419. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|common_names=Fischer’s mouse-ear chickweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cerastium alpinum var. fischerianum
|authority=(Seringe) Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cerastium unalaschkense
|authority=Takeda
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Cerastium;Cerastium fischerianum
|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 fischerianum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 76, 82, 86
|treatment_page=page 85
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, coarse, forming loose mats or clumps, ± rhizoma-tous. <b>Stems</b> erect to straggling, decumbent at base, sturdy, 10–50 cm, usually densely pubescent with hairs patent, yellowish, multicellular, glandular and eglandular, often subglabrous near base; nodes bearded with long, yellowish hairs; small axillary tufts of leaves usually absent. <b>Leaves</b> sessile, not marcescent; blade lanceolate, 7–50 × 3–15 mm, largest on mid and distal stem, apex usually acute, densely ciliate, hairs yellowish, multicellular, eglandular, of various lengths; proximal leaves with blade lanceolate to elliptic, oblanceolate, or oblong. <b>Inflorescences</b> lax, 2–10-flowered cymes, compact when young, branches elongating at maturity; proximal bracts foliaceous, herbaceous, pubescence as in leaves; distal bracts lanceolate, 5–10 mm, often with scarious tip, ciliate with long, fuscous hairs. <b>Pedicels</b> erect or becoming deflexed at base and curved at apex, 5–30(–60) mm, elongating in fruit, ca. 6 times as long as sepals, densely fuscous-pubescent with glandular and eglandular, patent hairs. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals narrowly lanceolate with round base, 6–10 mm, margins narrow, apex acute, strigose-ciliate, hairs long, fuscous; petals conspicuous, 10–14 mm, 1.5–2 times as long as sepals, apex deeply 2-fid; stamens 10; styles 5. <b>Capsules</b> slightly conic or cylindric, straight, 10–22 mm, ca. 2 times as long as sepals; teeth 10, erect, margins convolute. <b>Seeds</b> reddish brown, 1–1.5 mm diam., strongly papillate; testa not inflated, tightly enclosing seed. <b>2n</b> = 66, 72.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Grassy areas, lake shores, riverbanks, gravel
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Asia.
|discussion=<p><i>Cerastium fischerianum</i> is a distinctive species resembling a large and robust form of <i>C. fontanum</i>. The bush of yellow hairs underneath each node, together with the large flowers, sepals, and capsule, distinguish this species. It intergrades with <i>C. beeringianum</i>, and the intermediate plants often have exceptionally large petals; these have been named <i>C. beeringianum</i> <i></i>var.<i> grandiflorum</i> Hultén.</p>
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name=Cerastium fischerianum
|authority=Seringe
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cerastium alpinum var. fischerianum;Cerastium unalaschkense
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Grassy areas, lake shores, riverbanks, gravel
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication year=1824
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_175.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Cerastium
|species=Cerastium fischerianum
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