Common name:
Snow-in-summer
Family:
Scientific name:
Cerastium tomentosum
Main flower color:
Range:
Scattered places across most of the UK, especially coastal areas; an introduced species
Height:
Up to 70 cm
Habitat:
Waste ground, roadsides, beach margins, dunes
Flowers:
Relatively large; up to 30 mm in diameter, formed of five broad, white petals, each deeply notched to create two rounded lobes, and five lance-shaped sepals, covered, like the stems and leaves, with dense, matted, greyish-white woolly hairs. The lower portion of each petal is crossed by greyish veins
Leaves:
Ovate, opposite, grey-green, densely covered with woolly hairs
Season:
May to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
