Index / Search / Cerastium brachypetalum
§1 Plant
Cerastium brachypetalum Pers.
vernacular gray chickweed — species · Caryophyllaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Cerastium
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 104 counties across 12 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 104 counties across 12 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 9 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 22 I ▾
- Burke 37023
- Cabarrus 37025
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Cleveland 37045
- Forsyth 37067
- Franklin 37069
- Granville 37077
- Guilford 37081
- Iredell 37097
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Mitchell 37121
- Nash 37127
- Orange 37135
- Person 37145
- Polk 37149
- Stanly 37167
- Surry 37171
- Wake 37183
- Warren 37185
- Watauga 37189
- Yancey 37199
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Bledsoe 47007
- Cheatham 47021
- Davidson 47037
- DeKalb 47041
- Dickson 47043
- Dyer 47045
- Franklin 47051
- Giles 47055
- Hardin 47071
- Henry 47079
- Lawrence 47099
- Lewis 47101
- Loudon 47105
- Marion 47115
- Marshall 47117
- Maury 47119
- McMinn 47107
- Moore 47127
- Polk 47139
- Rutherford 47149
- Sevier 47155
- Smith 47159
- Stewart 47161
- Sumner 47165
- Warren 47177
- Wayne 47181
- Williamson 47187
- Wilson 47189
Virginia view state ↗ 11 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CEBR2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3085439 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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