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§1 Plant
Cerastium arvense L.
vernacular field chickweed — species · Caryophyllaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Cerastium
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Introduced
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
County-level range
· 203 counties across 17 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 203 counties across 17 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 3 B ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 B ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 6 B ▾
Maine view state ↗ 12 B ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 B ▾
Montana view state ↗ 51 B ▾
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Broadwater 30007
- Carbon 30009
- Carter 30011
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Custer 30017
- Daniels 30019
- Dawson 30021
- Fallon 30025
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Glacier 30035
- Golden Valley 30037
- Granite 30039
- Hill 30041
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Liberty 30051
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Meagher 30059
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Pondera 30073
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Ravalli 30081
- Richland 30083
- Roosevelt 30085
- Rosebud 30087
- Sanders 30089
- Sheridan 30091
- Silver Bow 30093
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Treasure 30103
- Valley 30105
- Wibaux 30109
- Yellowstone 30111
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 B ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 B ▾
New York view state ↗ 31 B ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Greene 36039
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schuyler 36097
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 33 B ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- McKean 42083
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Susquehanna 42115
- Union 42119
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Wyoming 42131
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 7 B ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 8 B ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 6 B ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CEAR4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3085433 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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