STICKY MOUSE-EAR
Cerastium glomeratum
Carnation & Campion (Pink) Family [Caryophyllaceae] 
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Carnation & Campion (Pink) Family [Caryophyllaceae]
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status
flower
inner
yellow-greenmorph
petals
5 (10)type
petals
stem
sex
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| 20th April 2019, walled garden, Waterloo, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
| A low but erect Mouse-ear. |
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| 20th April 2019, walled garden, Waterloo, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
| The flowers are in compact clusters often with yellowish-green leaves. |
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| 10th June 2011, dismantled railway, nr. Bosley, Cheshire. | Photo: © RWD |
| The flowers don't open as widely as most other Mouse-ears. |
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| 20th April 2019, walled garden, Waterloo, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
| It has sticky glandular hairs. Some of the flowers here are extending and turning to fruit. |
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| 20th April 2019, walled garden, Waterloo, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
| Sticky glandular hairs on stems; not all are glandular. |
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| 20th April 2019, walled garden, Waterloo, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
| The 5 petals are white, narrowish and fairly deeply cleft at the tip. Clive Stace says that it has petals which are about the same length as the sepals (but note that they does not mean that they both end at the same place! - they must start in differing places...) |
| 17th April 2017, Brockworth. | Photo: © Mike Baldwin |
| 30th April 2016, Chosen Hill. | Photo: © Mike Baldwin |
| 7th May 2008, Brading Down, IOW. | Photo: © Geoff Toone |
| Some long hairs near the end of the sepals go well above the sepals. |
| 5th April 2017, Brockworth | Photo: © Mike Baldwin |
| The (5) bracts surrounding the flower are uniformly bright-green. Some long hairs near the end of the leaves also go well above the leaves. |
| 30th April 2016, Chosen Hill. | Photo: © Mike Baldwin |
| The flowers tend to bunch closely together |
| 25th May 2017, Cotswold Farm. | Photo: © Mike Baldwin |
| The flower lower left is extending and turning to fruit. |
| 28th April 2017, Brockworth | Photo: © Mike Baldwin |
| The flower on the lower left here has turned into a fruit, which is green at the moment. |
| 29th April 2017, Brockworth | Photo: © Mike Baldwin |
| The hairs are sticky with glandular hairs, but are mainly on the upper stem and sepals. The leaves are pointed oval, between 20 to 30mm long and stalkless. They are also yellowish-green - or at least the lower leaves are. |
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Not to be semantically confused with : Some similarities to : several other Mouse-ears
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 Cerastium
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glomeratum
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⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ |
Caryophyllaceae
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 Cerastium (Mouse-Ears) |
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Carnation & Campion (Pink) Family [Caryophyllaceae]
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