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Cerastium brachypetalum
Also called Grey mouse-ear, Gray Mouse Ear Chickweed
Gray chickweed is a small spring-blooming annual in the pink family, native to Mediterranean and temperate Europe and western Asia, and naturalized in North America. It grows best in open, sunny spots with lean, well-drained soil.
Cerastium brachypetalum, commonly called gray chickweed, grey mouse-ear or gray mouse-ear chickweed, is a spring blooming annual plant species. It is native to Mediterranean and temperate Europe, the Caucasus, Western Asia, and northwestern Africa. It has been introduced and naturalized in North America.
Cerastium brachypetalum is one of 101 species deemed high priorities for conservation in the UK by the wild flower and plant charity Plantlife.
Aleutian chickweed · Alpine chickweed · Arctic Mouse Ear · Field chickweed · Boreal 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 brachypetalum 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.
