Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cerastium glomeratum
Common name
Mouse-ear Chickweed, Sticky Mouse-ear Chickweed
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Where found
Weed of lawns, disturbed sites, and waste places. Widespread.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.45 m tall, or sprawling, hairy with glandular and simple hairs. Leaves opposite each other, 0.5–2.5 cm long, 3–18 mm wide. Flowers with 5 notched white petals, longer than or equal to the sepals. Sepals 3–5 mm long. Petals rarely absent. Flowers in a dense cluster. Flowering: late winter to summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cerastium~glomeratum
(accessed 7 January, 2021)
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