Cerastium beeringianum
Bering mouse-ear chickweed
Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Bering mouse-ear chickweed is a California native perennial found in northern and central Sierra Nevada and White and Inyo Mountains in moist, rocky areas, grassy meadows, and open slopes at elevations of 2,900 to 4,300 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces white flowers on delicate stems with petals 6 to 12 millimeters long. Growing as a low-spreading mat with both non-flowering and flowering stems reaching 1.5 to 10 centimeters tall, it forms dense ground-hugging clusters. Its leaves are small, lanceolate to elliptic, measuring 5 to 15 millimeters long and covered in glandular hairs. The plant produces fruits 5.5 to 8.5 millimeters long, with tiny seeds less than one millimeter in size.
Habitat: Moist, rocky areas, grassy meadows, open slopes
Bloom period: Jul-Aug
Elevation: 2900-4300 m
Bioregions: n&c SNH, W&I
California counties: Alpine, Sierra, Mono, Tuolumne, Siskiyou
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