Botanical atlas
Alpine Mouse-ear
Cerastium alpinum
This plant is kept in the atlas for identification and safety, not for use. Read the safety notes below before handling it, and keep it away from children, cats, and food.
Cerastium alpinum has never been a kitchen or medicine chest herb the way its lowland cousin, common chickweed, became. Instead, its story belongs to mountaineers, arctic botanists, and rock gardeners, people who prized it simply for daring to bloom where almost nothing else could. Early plant collectors pressed its small white flowers into herbaria as proof of having reached the harshest, highest ground, and gardeners later brought it down from the peaks to soften stone walls and scree beds with its silvery, felted leaves. Its charm has always been resilience and beauty rather than remedy.
Safety.
Alpine mouse-ear isn't known to be toxic, but it has no real history of being eaten or used medicinally. Don't assume it's safe to forage based on its resemblance to edible relatives like chickweed.
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