| Sticky Chickweed |
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| File size | 66256 |
| Original date | 6/22/09 10:58 AM |
| Resolution | 600 x 450 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 18.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/4000s |
| Aperture | 6.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E5700 |
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Botanical name: Cerastium glomeratum Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Synonyms: Cerastium viscosioides, Cerastium fontanum subsp. triviale, Stellaria glomerata
Synonyms: Cerastium viscosioides, Cerastium fontanum subsp. triviale, Stellaria glomerata
Sticky Chickweed is an annual herb 10-35 cm tall.
Stem are simple or branched, erect to
rising. Stems are hairy, often on one side. Leaves are 1-2 cm long, 3-7 mm
broad, obovate-elliptic to lanceshaped-elliptic, sparsely or densely
hairy, with a pointed to blunt tip and stalkless base. Bracts are
herbacious. Flower stalk is densely glandular-hairy, shorter or as long as
the sepal-cup. Flowers are borne in roundish heads at the end of branches.
Sepals are 4-5 mm long, lance-shaped, glandular-hairy, often tinged
purple. Petals are white, as long as or slightly shorter than the sepals.
deeply notched at the tip. Capsule is 1.5-2 times the sepal-cup length.
Sticky Chickweed is native of Europe, Macaronesia to Himalayas, to
NE India. Flowering: April-July.
| Identification credit: Tabish, J.M. Garg | Photographed in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, Panipat, Haryana & Kemmangundi Road, Karnataka. |
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