BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Cerastium (mouse-ears)
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
 |
 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Cerastium arcticum Lange (Arctic Mouse-ear) | 2 | ||
| Species | Cerastium arvense L. (Field Mouse-ear) | 3 | 4 | |
| Species | Cerastium fontanum Baumg. (Common Mouse-ear) | 16 | 7 | 13 |
| Species | Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. (Sticky Mouse-ear) | 8 | 7 | 7 |
| Species | Cerastium semidecandrum L. (Little Mouse-ear) | 4 | 7 | 2 |
| Species | Cerastium tomentosum L. (Snow-in-summer) | 2 |
Suggested Literature
Cerastium 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:
| is foodplant of | Gronops lunatus - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) | 
|
Morris, M.G., 2002 | ||
| flower | flower is grazed by larva | Hypera arator - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) |
|
Morris, M.G., 2002 | |
| leaf | leaf is grazed by larva | Hypera arator - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) |
|
Morris, M.G., 2002 | |
| leaves (terminal) | leaves (terminal) is galled by larva | Dasineura cerastii - a gall midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) | 
|
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986 | |
| leaves (terminal) | leaves (terminal) is galled by larva | Dasineura lotharingiae - a gall midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) | Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986 | ||
| leaves (terminal) | leaves (terminal) is galled by | Brachycolus cerastii (Homoptera: Aphididae) | Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986 |
Cerastium may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
|
MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants) |
MAGNOLIIDAE (dicotyledonous flowering plants) |
CARYOPHYLLACEAE (chickweeds, stitchworts and campions) |
References
| Morris, M.G., 2002 | True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae |
| Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986 | Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls |
