Sea Mouse-ear found during coastal spring fling

sea mouse ear
Sea Mouse-ear  Cerastium diffusum   Photo: Janet Higgins

We were looking out for tiny mouse-ears during the Norfolk Flora group ‘spring fling’ to the coast at Blakeney. We spotted a tiny white flower amongst a patch of Early Forget-me-not Myosotis ramosissima on a patch of dry sandy grassland. This was easily identified as Sea Mouse-ear as it had everything in fours, notably four petals instead of the usual five petals typical of Mouse-ears (although some plants actually have five petals and stamens, just to confuse us)

Janet Higgins
21.04.2018