Cerastium fontanum Baumgarten 1816 (Family Caryophyllaceae)


Plant

Leaves

Flower

Fruit

Height: 5-30cm
Rarely Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Annual
Hermaphrodite, Flowering April - November (Earliest: 16.4)

Habitat:
Meadows
Pollination:
Empis pennipes
Granivores:
Panemeria tenebrata Larva

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Common Mouse-ear


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