Cerastium texanum (Texas Chickweed)

Family

CARYOPHYLLACEAE

Common Name

Texas Chickweed

Agency Status
USFWS	State of NM	USFS	BLM	Navajo Nation	State Rank	Global Rank	R-E-D Code	NMRPTC Status	Strategy Status
					S3?	G4		D

Distribution

Good (1987) gives a rather wide range of Chihuahua, Sonora, and Baja del Sur in Mexico. In the U.S. it ranges from southeast AZ, southwest NM to the Edwards Plateau in TX.

Habitat

This is an annual species that occupies lower elevations than other members of the genus, but can get up into mixed conifer forest.

Important Literature

Good, D.A. 1987. Revision of the Mexican and Central American species of Cerastium. Rhodora 86:339-379.

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