| Author | Baumgartner | |
| Distribution | Throughout the state, although scarce in the Sandhills proper.
Native of Europe; in N.A. throughout. | |
| Abundance | Frequent in the Mountains and Piedmont, uncommon to frequent in the Coastal Plain. | |
| Habitat | Roadsides, railroad margins, fields, campuses, yard weed, garden weed, waste places. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting February-May. | |
| Identification | Common Mouse-ear Chickweed is a matted perennial, which separates it from all of our alien Cerastium, and also from C. brachypodum and C. nutans. The petals are short (5-9 mm), about the same length or a bit longer than the sepals (5-7 mm). The inflorescence is an open cyme versus compact in C. glomeratum. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Older references named this as C. holosteoides var. vulgare, or just C. vulgatum.
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | FAC link |
| USACE-emp | FACU link |
