How to Grow and Care for Mouse-ear chickweed

Sticky chickweed is a weedy annual found in many different habitats. It often grows in disturbed and well-drained soils. Sticky chickweed flowers in spring but dies back as the summer months heat up. A single stalk may bloom as many as 50 flowers at a time.

A beautiful and easy to grow ground cover, snow-in-summer or Cerastium tomentosum makes for a great addition to your yard. Silvery gray mounds of foliage yield prolific white flowers, so much so that each mound looks like a pile of snow. This member of the carnation family is drought and deer resistant.

Field chickweed (*Cerastium arvense*) is an herbaceous perennial whose genus name comes from the Greek word "keras", which means "horn." That's because its seed capsule is slightly bent like a cow's horn.

Mouse ear chickweed (Cerastium fontanum) is a perennial flowering plant native to Europe, most commonly in Great Britain and Ireland. Mouse ear chickweed is commonly seen naturally growing alongside roadsides and adjacent grasslands. The specific epithet "fontanum" from its scientific name means "fountain", naming after their preference of damping soil and streamsides.

The alpine mouse-ear was first identified by the botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1753. It grows in mats throughout cold tundra and heath environments. Luckily, it's also easy to cultivate, so it is sometimes used in garden rockeries.