Botanical name: Cerastium holosteoides    Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Synonyms: Cerastium fontanum subsp. holosteoides, Cerastium vulgatum var. tibeticum, Cerastium fontanum subsp. vulgare

Common mouse-ear chickweed is a biennial or short-lived perennial plant that grows from a taproot. Flowering stems are prostrate, root at the nodes, and form clumps up to 38 cm across. Stems are 5 to 38 cm long and are covered with stiff, glandular hairs. Stem leaves are opposite, lanceshaped to ovate, up to 2.5 cm long, single-nerved, and coarsely hairy on both surfaces. Leaves of the flowering stems are larger, up to 4 cm long. Commonly, several to many flowers are arranged in open clusters. Flowers are small, erect or spreading, and inprominent. Each flower is composed of five white, two-cleft petals. Petals are about 6 mm long and equal or nearly equal to the sepals. Sepals are hairy with papery margins. Capsules are cylindrical, 10-valved, and up to 13 mm long. Common Mouse-Ear Chickweed is found in Temp. & Subarctic Eurasia to W Himalaya to New Guinea. In the Himalayas it is found at 3000 m and above, common in Ladakh.

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