''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 his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
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.
References
alpinum
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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