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Caryophyllaceae
Alpine mouse-ear
Cerastium alpinum
Also known as Mountain mouse-ear, Cerastium alpinum, Alpine chickweed, Cerastium lanatum var. thomasianum
Native Plants · Alpine · Rock Garden · Groundcover · White Flowers · Drought Tolerant · Silver Foliage · Perennial · Trough Plant · Low Growing · Mountain Plant
Alpine mouse-ear is a delicate, silvery-leaved perennial suited to rock gardens, alpine troughs, and well-drained raised beds. It thrives in full sun with gritty, lean soil and excellent drainage — avoid rich or waterlogged conditions which will cause it to rot. Once established it is very low maintenance, producing small white flowers in late spring and early summer.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 8 hours
- Watering
- Water sparingly; allow soil to dry between waterings as this alpine plant is adapted to low moisture conditions · Every 10-14 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6.5–7
- Temperature
- -20°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division
Hardiness
USDA 4a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 8 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, Labrador, Manitoba, Newfoundland, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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