Irish wildflowers
Photographs: Dunmnway, Co. Cork |
Snow-in-summer / Dusty Miller Cerastium tomentosum Family: Caryophyllaceae Flowering May - June. Perennial. Garden escape. Many white flowers with notched petals, nearly covering the leaves. Seeds freely. Mat-forming, spreading growth, the narrow silvery-grey, slightly woolly leaves not dying back in winter. Common and widespread garden escape, discard or relic of cultivation, usually found near habitation in well-drained, infertile soil on walls, roadsides, waste ground and in pavement cracks. |
Snow-in-summer, Cerastium tomentosum
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