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Mountain chickweed

Dichodon cerastoides

Also called Starwort Mouse Ear, Starwort Chickweed

Mountain chickweed
Photo: HermannSchachner, CC0
Family
Caryophyllaceae (Pink & carnation family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Temp. Eurasia, E. Canada to Greenland
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

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Dichodon cerastoides, commonly known as the mountain chickweed or starwort mouse-ear, is a species of flowering plant in the pink family Caryophyllaceae. It is found in the mountains of Europe.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dichodon cerastoides 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.

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