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Common Mouse-Ear –cerastium fontanum– is most commonly found on dry arable grassland and disturbed bare ground. Common Mouse-Ear is a low growing perennial species with small white flowers that appear from April to November. Plants look best alongside other low growing arable wild flowers such as Red Bartsia, Wild Pansies and Field Pansies.


How to grow Common Mouse-Ear Seeds
Common Mouse Ear seeds should be sown in the spring or autumn, outside, where they are to flower, and covered lightly with soil.

To buy Common Mouse-Ear seeds
To purchase Common Mouse-Ear seeds, please select a quantity above and click add to cart. To ensure the best chance of success, we sell all of our wildflower seeds by weight, which ensures each wildflower seed packet contains a good quantity of seeds. The recommended sowing rate is 1 gram per square metre, and the number of Common Mouse Ear seeds per gram is approx. 5750. All of our Wildflower seed packets contain seeds of Native British provenance.


Summary
type - perennial,
colour - White,
height - 10 to 30 cms,
flowering months - April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November
habitat - Bare, Open Ground (eg Arable field margins, disturbed, waste ground) dry grassland clay loam