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Cerastium biebersteinii
Also called Snow In Summer, Bieberstein's Chickweed, Crimean Snow In Summer
Cerastium biebersteinii is a low, silvery-leaved perennial native to the Crimea, grown as an ornamental ground cover. It likes sun, well-drained soil and little water, and rots if kept wet.
Cerastium biebersteinii, the boreal chickweed, is an ornamental plant in the genus Cerastium and the family Caryophyllaceae. It is an endemic of the Crimea. The species is named after a German botanist Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein.
The Crimea is the unique natural habitat of this plant. It is also present in Crimean yayla grass.
Aleutian chickweed · Alpine chickweed · Arctic Mouse Ear · Field chickweed · Gray chickweed · Fourstamen chickweed · Common mouse-ear chickweed · Sticky chickweed · Common Mouse Ear · Cerastium ligusticum · Shetland Mouse Ear · European chickweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cerastium biebersteinii 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.
