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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 (true), 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, pubescent; florets numerous, in cymose clusters, white with five notched petals resembling two fused petals; capsules 6-9mm long. |