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Cerastium holosteoides
Also called Common Mouse Ear Chickweed, Eurasian Mouse Ear Chickweed, Big Chickweed
Cerastium holosteoides, the common mouse-ear chickweed, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae.
Its native range is temperate and subarctic areas of the Old World; scattered countries in Africa, nearly all of Eurasia to New Guinea. One of the world's most widespread weeds, it has been introduced to most of North America, the western countries of South America, New Zealand, South Africa, and many islands around the world.
Aleutian chickweed · Alpine chickweed · Arctic Mouse Ear · Field chickweed · Boreal chickweed · Gray chickweed · Fourstamen chickweed · Common mouse-ear chickweed · Sticky chickweed · Cerastium ligusticum · Shetland Mouse Ear · European chickweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cerastium holosteoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
