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Cerastium semidecandrum
Also called Little mouse-ear, Five Stamen Mouse Ear Chickweed, Scarious Chickweed, Five Stamen Chickweed, Little Chickweed, Small Chickweed
Cerastium semidecandrum, known as little mouse-ear in English, is an annual herbaceous plant in the flowering plant family Caryophyllaceae. It occurs in sandy, generally acid grassland and thin soils over bare rock. It is native to Europe, western Asia and north Africa and is widely established as an introduced species elsewhere.
Little mouse-ear is native to Europe, northern Africa and south-western Asia. It is considered to be an introduction in NW Asia, including Russia, and it has become established in many other parts of the world, including North and South America, Australia and New Zealand.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cerastium semidecandrum 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.
