Mouse-Ear Chickweed

Synonyms:   Big Chickweed

Scientific Name:   Cerastium vulgatum


Native to Europe.

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Mouse-Ear Chickweed


Genus species: Cerastium vulgatum
Common Names: Mouse-Ear Chickweed,Big Chickweed
Family Name: Caryophyllaceae  
Annual or perennial herbs, often with swollen nodes; leaves opposite, simple, entire, stipules scarious or absent; flowers mostly bisexual, regular, solitary or in various clusters; fruit a capsule or 1-seeded utricle.
Seed Type Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Nonnative
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:White
Identified by:M. Becus
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