| Scientific Name: | Cerastium glomeratum ssp. vulgare |
| Common Name: | mouse-eared chickweed |
| Family Name: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual, Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | < 0.1m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Sessile, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Oblanceolate, Obovate, Ovate, Spatulate, Ciliate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Mar-Apr-May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stem swollen at leaf node, hairy, sticky, 5-50cm long; leaves opposite, sessile, most obovate, 7-25mm long x 3-15mm wide, decussate; florets numerous, in cymose clusters, white with five notched petals resembling two fused petals; capsules 6-9mm long. | |