''Cerastium alpinum'', commonly called alpine mouse-ear or alpine chickweed, is a mat-forming perennial plant. The species was first described by

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

in 1753. It is native to Greenland, Canada and northern Europe. It is grown as a rock garden subject for its many small white flowers and silver haired stems and foliage. There are three subspecies.

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alpinum Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Caryophyllaceae-stub