Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Mouse Ear Chickweed

Mouse ear chickweed are native of Europe and are in white color and prominent for their hairiness. Mouse ear chickweed has small flowers generally found with miniature flowers and five miniature petals which are severely lobed thereby giving a manifestation of ten petals rising up to a stature of 6-8 inches. The stems of mouse ear chickweed are sultry as well as sepals somewhat longer or else shorter than the petals. Mouse ear chickweeds are also known as Field Chickweed, Field Mouse-ear, and Meadow chickweeds. Mouse ear chickweed is spread all around the North America, Baffin Island, Iceland, Scotland, Norway, Western and Southern Greenland, Svalbard and Labrador. Biological name of Mouse ear chickweed is Cerastium. It belongs to the family of Caryophyllaceae. This plant is a biennial or a short live perennial with taproot. It’s understood that chickweed has got its name as chickens loves it a lot.

Mouse ear chickweed are quite often observed from late winter to early spring and while this time the petals come apart to chickweeds making it look best when the tree drops its leaves making it a most wanted scene for the enthusiast as it illustrate it beauty to a great extend. Mouse ear chickweed tastes similar to corn silk in raw and similar to spinach when cooked. To be frank, each and every part of it is worth to eat. Mouse ear chickweeds are well thought-out to have medicinal values as well.

Quite frequently these Mouse ear chickweeds are easily misguided for other plants of same genus however they aren’t as lengthy as the familiar chickweeds. These plants require less water to grow, they necessitate no more than usual water and full sunlight even though partial shade can’t build any interference in the escalation of the plant. Chickweeds like Mouse-ear and sticky chickweeds are acclimatizing to ample variety of environment. Mouse ear chickweeds give you an idea about more indulgent to warm, hot and dry circumstances.

Over and over again when coming across weeds, you find it all around the moist places. Even though they are well thought-out to be a nuisance as its self-sowing with a faster multiplication of the breed to the area within a short time, they can be sometimes useful as medicinal purpose or fit for human consumption or may show helpful in many ways as Mouse ear chickweed shows to use as they are edible and used for medicinal purpose as well. It plant leaves, stem consists of vitamin C, phosphorous, iron and trace minerals and thus are edible. In addition to it, they can also be applied on minor cuts, burns and rashes as it brings a drying and drawing effect and there by giving relief.

Frequently mouse ear chickweed grows very swiftly and fills the area within the blinking time of eye and it’s quite a difficult situation to tackle it but sure to make the environment a good scene with its beautiful, stunning flowers they produce.

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