Cerastium inflatum

Description

Perennial, (6-) 10-15 cm with dichotomous or divaricate branching stems densely pilose, often glandular. Leaves 10-35 x 2-10 mm, pilose, oblong-lanceolate, apex obtuse, base sessile. Bracts herbaceous. Inflorescence a lax or condensed cyme. Pedicel as long as or shorter than the calyx, densely pilose. Calyx somewhat inflated in fruit. Sepals 8-12 mm, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glandular-pilose, margin scarious. Petals white, as long as or shorter than the sepals, bilobed. Capsule 18-20 mm, about twice the length of the sepals, teeth flat. Seeds c. 1 mm, subreniform, with low rounded tubercles.