| Scientific Name: | Cerastium tomentosum |
| Common Name: | snow-in-summer |
| Family Name: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | < 0.1m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Ground cover, Rock garden, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Tomentose, Lanceolate, Linear, Spatulate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Short-live perennial; leaves locally evergreen, sessile, most lanceolate 1.5-2cm long x 3-8mm wide, woolly due to greyish-white hairs; flowers 1.5-2cm wide, petals 5, heart-shaped, white, May-Jun. | |