Cerastium arcticum, the Arctic mouse-ear chickweed or Arctic mouse-ear, is a flower found in parts of western and southern Greenland, Baffin Island, Labrador, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Scotland, Norway and Svalbard.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Arctic Chickweed being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Cerastium alpinum
- Cerastium nigrescens
- Cerastium beeringianum
- Cerastium regelii
- Dichodon cerastoides
- Cerastium pedunculatum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- Genus
- Cerastium
- Species
- Cerastium arcticum
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