BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Cerastium arvense L. (Field Mouse-ear)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Cerastium arvense Plant 16 June 1974 South-east Yorkshire England 1
Cerastium arvense Plant 12 May 1974 South-east Yorkshire England 2

Suggested Literature

Cerastium arvense may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Cerastium arvense:

is associate of sporodochium Endoconospora cerastii - an anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Melampsorella caryophyllacearum - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by mostly hypophyllous uredium Melampsorella caryophyllacearum - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Hypera diversipunctata - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) UK/Ireland Morris, M.G., 2002

Cerastium arvense may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
CARYOPHYLLACEAE
(chickweeds, stitchworts and campions)
Cerastium
(mouse-ears)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Morris, M.G., 2002 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae

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