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Cerastium alpinum
Also called Alpine Mouse Ear, Alpine Mouse Ear Chickweed
Alpine chickweed is a low, mat-forming perennial from cold northern mountains and tundra, grown in rock gardens for its small white flowers and silvery hairy foliage. It needs sharp drainage and cool conditions, and it dislikes heat and wet summers.
Cerastium alpinum, commonly called alpine mouse-ear or alpine chickweed, is a mat-forming perennial plant. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. It is native to Greenland, Canada and northern Europe. It is grown as a rock garden subject for its many small white flowers and silver haired stems and foliage. There are three subspecies.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cerastium alpinum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
