DIVERSITY OF LIFE

TOMPKINS COUNTY FLORA

Cerastium arvense L.	Mitchell NY NYFA TC USDA NY accepted no accepted

Field mouse-ear Chickweed, Field Chickweed
Caryophyllaceae

CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: Lawns and other grassy places; rare. May. Corner of East and South Aves. and near Stone Hall, C. U. campus; cemetery, University Ave. (D. !); Chi Psi (Fiske) grounds (D.). Native on rocky serpentine soils: Lab. to Alaska, southw. to Del., Pa., Ind., Minn., Colo., and Calif., also along the mts. to Ga. The plant of lawns and fields is probably naturalized from Eu.

BH SPECIMENS FOR Cerastium arvense (this list may be incomplete)

Town of Dryden, 107 Neimi Road, Five Wells Nature Preserve, Lost Spring Road, flowers white, 6 Jun 2004, Dilger WCD1935 (BH 113162);

Ithaca, 24 May 1885, Moore (BH 53054);

Ithaca, Cornell University campus, East Avenue, lawn, May 1916, Alexander 6418 (BH 15102);

Ithaca, making a mat, 16 May 1918, Bailey (BH 15093);

Ithaca, East Avenue, 16 May 1933, Clausen 506 (BH 15094);

Dryden, dry places, cemetery, 9 May 1880, Curtice (BH 15097);

Ithaca, cemetery, Jun 1882, Dudley (BH 15098);

Ithaca, Cornell University campus, lawn of Baker Laboratory, 1 Jun 1933, Eames 18320 (BH 15096);

Ithaca, Cornell University campus, in lawn between Stone Hall and Home Economics Building, 2 Jun 1924, Eames & Muenscher 15465 (BH 15099);

Ithaca, 19 May 1882, Kilborne (BH 15092);

Ithaca, Ithaca cemetery, near Cascadilla Creek, in grass, 8 May 1915, Metcalf 4021 (BH 15090);

Town of Newfield, bank near second overhead crossing up Inlet valley, roadside, A large patch, 11 May 1938, Wiegand 19862 (BH 15091);

Ithaca, cemetery, 25 May 1893, Wiegand (BH 15101);

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