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Cerastium sventenii

Cerastium sventenii
Photo: fmunoz, CC BY 4.0

Cerastium sventenii is a small Canary Islands subshrub in the pink family, found in moist rocky slopes of forest habitat. It is rarely grown outside botanical collections, so care notes rely on general guidance for related mouse-ear chickweeds.

Family
Caryophyllaceae (Pink & carnation family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth but avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, gritty or rocky mix with some organic matter.
Temperature
10–22 °C; protect below 0 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Canary Is. (El Hierro, La Palma, Tenerife)
Climate
temperate

About

Cerastium sventenii is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is endemic to the Canary Islands. It grows in moist talus in forested habitat. It is threatened by introduced grazing herbivores and non-native plants.

Other Cerastium plants

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 sventenii 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.

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