Common name:
Dwarf mouse-ear
Family:
Scientific name:
Cerastium pumilum
Main flower color:
Range:
Wales and southern England
Height:
Up to 20 cm
Habitat:
Dry calcareous grassland
Flowers:
Five white petals and five sepals, green or purplish, lined with a thin, silvery margin. Petals and sepals are similar in length. On short pedicels, subtended by hairy bracts, which also have a silvery margin, along the upper quarter
Leaves:
Ovate, glandular-hairy, green or purplish
Season:
April to May
Rarity:
★★★★★
