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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Cerastium arcticum''
| image = mouseearchickweed.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Caryophyllales]]
| familia = [[Caryophyllaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Cerastium]]''
| species = '''''C. arcticum'''''
| binomial = ''Cerastium arcticum''
| binomial_authority = Lge.
}}

'''''Cerastium arcticum''''' (''Arctic mouse-ear chickweed'' or ''Arctic mouse-ear'') is a flower distributed at parts of western and southern [[Greenland]], [[Baffin Island]], [[Labrador]], [[Iceland]], [[Scotland]], [[Norway]] and [[Svalbard]].

It grows in tufts, sometimes loosely, generally in damp places and on open gravel. Most of the plant is [[pubescent]], the hairs appearing stiff. Leaves are elliptical. The flowers are white, rather large, beautiful when fully expanded, single or two together. [[Petal]]s deeply notched and considerably longer than [[sepal]]s. 

==See also==
*[[Flora of Svalbard]]

[[Category:Caryophyllaceae]]
[[Category:Alpine flora]]
[[Category:Arctic flora]]