Field chickweed
Cerastium arvense L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 38 cm
- wide
- —
Caryophyllaceae
Also called Field mouse-ear
Formerly Alsine arvensis, Centunculus arvensis, Leucodonium arvense
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Russian Far East and C. Asia, NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 卷耳, 原野卷耳, 田野卷耳
- Czech
- rožec rolní
- Welsh
- Clust-y-llygoden y meysydd
- German
- Acker-Hornkraut, Ackerhornkraut
- Spanish
- oreja de ratón
- Estonian
- Põld-kadakkaer
- Finnish
- ketohärkki
- French
- Ceraiste des champs, céraiste des champs, Céraiste des champs
- Italian
- Peverina dei campi
- Lithuanian
- Dirvinė glažutė
- Macedonian
- Полски рожец
- Dutch
- akkerhoornbloem, Akkerhoornbloem
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Cerastium arvense (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.