Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cerastium vulgare
Common name
Mouse-ear chickweed
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Where found
Weed of lawns, gardens, and other disturbed sites. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, and the tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 0.5 m high, with sprawling non-flowering shoots. Flowering shoots becoming erect. Stems and leaves with spreading simple and rarely glandular hairs. Leaves opposite each other, 1–3 cm long, 3–10 mm wide, tips blunt. Flowers with 5 white deeply notched petals shorter to slightly longer than the sepals. Sepals 4–7 mm long. 10 stamens. Flowering: late spring to summer. Seed case 8–11 mm long, about twice as long as the calyx.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cerastium~vulgare
(accessed 7 January, 2021)
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