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Cerastium pumilum
Also called Dwarf Mouse Ear, European Mouse Ear Chickweed, Curtis' Mouse Ear Chickweed, Curtis's Mouse Ear, Dwarf Chickweed, Dwarf Mouse Ear Chickweed, Small Chickweed
Cerastium pumilum is a small annual or biennial chickweed, 2 to 20 cm tall, with tiny white flowers from March to May. It is a weedy, low-growing plant that is easy to grow in open ground and rarely cultivated as an ornamental.
Cerastium pumilum, the dwarf mouse-ear or European chickweed, is an annual or biannual herbaceous plant, between 2 and 20 cm (0.8 and 7.9 in) high, native to Central and western Europe. The petals of the white flowers are shorter or equally long as the sepals, and split in the middle, up to a quarter of the length. The fruit petioles stand diagonal to the stems, often bent over at their top. Flowering occurs between March and May. Rarely occurs on the seacoast.
Aleutian chickweed · Alpine chickweed · Arctic Mouse Ear · Field chickweed · Boreal chickweed · Gray chickweed · Fourstamen chickweed · Common mouse-ear chickweed · Sticky chickweed · Common Mouse Ear · Cerastium ligusticum · Shetland Mouse Ear
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cerastium pumilum 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.
