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Caryophyllaceae
Common mouse-ear
Cerastium fontanum
Also known as Cerastium, Mouse-ear chickweed, Common mouse-ear chickweed, Cerastium vulgatum subsp. fontanum
Native Plants · Groundcover · Small Flowers · Mat Forming · Hardy · Poor Soil · Low Growing · White Flowers · Adaptable
This small groundcover plant forms dense mats with tiny white flowers and is extremely hardy and adaptable. It requires minimal care and can tolerate poor soil conditions and foot traffic. Often considered more of a lawn weed than an ornamental, but useful for difficult areas where other plants won't grow.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Water lightly when top inch of soil is dry · Every 10-14 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5.5–6.5
- Temperature
- -30°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 2 ft – 5 ft
- Spread
- 8 in
- Spacing
- 4 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Austria, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechoslovakia, East Himalaya, Falkland Is., Finland, France, FøRoyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Macquarie Is., Morocco, Nansei-Shoto, Nepal
Sources: trefle, usda
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