General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Water Preferences: Mesic
Flowers: Showy
Uses: Groundcover
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Division
Other: take cuttings in the spring
Pollinators: Self
Flies
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger

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Common names
  • Mouse-ear Chickweed
  • Big Chickweed
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Cerastium fontanum subsp. vulgare
  • Synonym: Cerastium vulgatum var. holosteoides
  • Synonym: Cerastium vulgatum var. hirsutum
  • Synonym: Cerastium triviale
  • Synonym: Cerastium holosteoides var. vulgare
  • Synonym: Cerastium holosteoides
  • Synonym: Cerastium fontanum subsp. triviale
  • Synonym: cerastium fontanum subsp. holosteoides
  • Synonym: Cerastium adsurgens
  • Synonym: Cerastium vulgatum

Photo Gallery
Location: nature reserve, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-05-04
Location: nature reserve, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-05-04
Location: nature reserve, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-05-04
Location: nature reserve, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-05-04

Date: 2004-04-24
Credit: Steven J. Baskauf (http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/)

Date: 2004-04-24
Credit: Steven J. Baskauf (http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/)
Location: Tennessee
Date: 2004-04-24
Credit: Steven J. Baskauf (http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/)

Date: June
credit: John Cameron

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