Common name:
Little mouse-ear
Family:
Scientific name:
Cerastium semidecandrum
Main flower color:
Range:
Scattered places across most of the UK
Height:
Up to 15 cm
Habitat:
Dry grassland, sandy or rocky places
Flowers:
Five white petals, about 3 mm long, shallowly notched (around a quarter of the length), and five slightly longer green sepals, which have a wide silvery margin. Sepals, pedicels and stems have a covering of short glandular hairs. At the centre are five white stamens. Pedicels are longer than the sepals
Leaves:
Oblong, sessile, green, relatively thick, with a covering of rough hairs
Season:
April to June
Rarity:
★★★★★
