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Cerastium

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n.1.a genus of weedy plants of the pink family, comprising the mouse-ear chickweeds.
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Noun1.Cerastium - mouse-eared chickweedCerastium - mouse-eared chickweed                
genus Cerastium
caryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
carnation family, Caryophyllaceae, family Caryophyllaceae, pink family - large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)
clammy chickweed, mouse eared chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, mouse ear, chickweed - any of various plants related to the common chickweed
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In one group, for instance, may be planted the following, which will usually germinate within three weeks and be ready for transplanting within three to six weeks more: Alyssum, arabis, aubrietia, arenaria, armeria, achillea, anthemis, bellis, columbine (aquilegia), cerastium, delphinium, draba, erinus, forget-me-not (myosotis), gypsophila, linaria, linum, lichnis, lupine, pansies, poppies, potentilla, silene, saponaria.
Germination, Bog Plants, and Transplanting by Lynette Tyson / Reference and Education community
Good choices include the pure white Cosmos 'Purity', Digitalis purpurea 'Alba', the white foxglove, and Cerastium Tomentosum 'Silver Carpet' (snowin-summer).
In the night garden; Hannah Stephenson tells you how to make the most ... by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Good choices include the pure white Cosmos 'Purity', Digitalis purpurea 'Alba', the white foxglove, and Cerastium Tomentosum 'Silver Carpet' (snow-in-summer), a vigorous mat-forming perennial which produces silvery white woolly foliage and a mass of pure white flowers when in bloom.
When darkness falls; gardening by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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