| Name | Cerastium alpinum Linnaeus |
| Authorship | Linnaeus |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Cerastium Linnaeus |
| Contains | Cerastium alpinum var. glanduliferum Koch Cerastium alpinum subsp. lanatum (Lamarck) P. F. A. Ascherson & P. Graebner Cerastium alpinum var. lanatum (Lamarck) Hegetschweiler Cerastium alpinum var. strigosum Hultén |
| Citation | 1753 Sp. Pl. 1: 438–439 |
| Holdings | 120 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Cerastium alpinum Linnaeus |
| Identification made in | [no date] (117), 1952 (1), 1961 (1), 2025 (1) |