Arctic mouse-ear

noun

Arctic mouse-ear

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1

A perennial herb, Cerastium arcticum, growing in parts of the Arctic.

Dainty Arctic mouse ears with their distinctive double-lobed petals speckle the heath close by my own roost, paper-thin flowers springing from a tangled mat of foliage that forms little islands in the grass.2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 154:

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