Scientific name: Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
Common name: Common Mouse-ear
Description
Habit: Hairy, perennial, to 50 cm high, with short, prostrate non-flowering branches; gland-tipped hairs absent.
Stems: Trailing, short non-flowering stems and erect, unbranched flowering stems.
Leaves: Opposite, stalkless or short-stalked, 8-20 mm long, entire, oblong.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, in small cymes; sepals 5; petals 5, divided into two at the tip but not deeply lobed, about the same length as sepals; stamens 10; styles 5; ovary superior.
Fruits: A capsule.
Habitat: Pastures, roadsides, sand-dunes and heaths.
Distribution: Abundant throughout.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No