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Cerastium tomentosum
Also called Dusty Miller, Snow In Harvest, Snow On The Mountain
Snow-in-summer is a low, spreading, silver-grey perennial that forms dense mats covered in small white star-shaped flowers in late spring. It thrives in full sun and poor, gritty, well-drained soil, where it is very easy to grow.
Cerastium tomentosum (snow-in-summer) is an herbaceous flowering plant and a member of the family Caryophyllaceae. It is generally distinguished from other species of its genus by "tomentose" or felty foliage. It is a low, spreading perennial native to the alpine regions of central and southern Italy. The stems and leaves are silvery-grey, whilst the flowers are star-like, white and about 15 mm (0.59 in) across.
It has proven popular as a cultivated ornamental and can be found in gardens the world over. It is a horticultural plant, perennial, rocky, forming dense silver carpets. This plant is not very demanding: it likes a poor soil, rich in gravel, well drained, in a sunny place. It spreads easily by its rhizomes.
It is native to Italy, from the central and southern Apennine Mountains to Sicily. It has naturalised elsewhere in Europe and in North America, where it is often subspontaneous.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cerastium tomentosum 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.
