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Cerastium pumilum Curtis

dwarf mouse-ear (Caryophyllaceae)

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Cerastium pumilum is a small annual with curved pedicels, glandular sepals with a narrow scarious border not exceeded by the hairs, and petals at least as long as the sepals; it grows in bare parts of base-rich grassland in SW England and N Wales.

Coln St. Dennis (VC33: East Gloucestershire); 2021-05-07

 dwarf mouse-ear / Cerastium pumilum: _Cerastium pumilum_ is a small annual with curved pedicels, glandular sepals with a narrow scarious border not exceeded by the hairs, and petals at least as long as the sepals; it grows in bare parts of base-rich grassland in SW England and N Wales.

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