Clustered Mouse Ear - Cerastium glomeratum
Family - Caryophyllaceae (Pink), Also known as -
Mouse-eared chickweed or Sticky Mouse Ear

A small very hairy usually sticky, annual species of mouse-ear (Chickweed) growing to 5-40Cm (2-15in) tall, which has small compact white flowers of 5 petals deeply indented making them appear to have 10 petals, usually appearing February to May in clusters at the top of the stems, often with an overall plant colouration of yellowish green. Native to Europe but found almost world-wide, very common in a wide variety of moist and sunny bare-ground habitats, hillsides, grasslands, roadsides, pastures, disturbed places. A mat-forming branched winter annual with fuzzy, opposite leaves elliptical to ovate, with an entire margin, that resemble a mouse's ears deriving it's common name. The stems are also hairy with white flowers arranged in clusters at the end of the stems, reproduces by seed fruiting to an erract cylindrical capsule. Seeds of C. glomeratum are persistent in the seed bank.

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