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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Cerastium arcticum''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Caryophyllales]]
| familia = [[Caryophyllaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Cerastium]]''
| species = '''''C. nigrescens'''''
| binomial = ''Cerastium nigrescens''
| binomial_authority =
}}
'''Shetland Mouse-ear''' ''Cerastium nigrescens'', also known as '''Shetland Mouse-eared Chickweed''' or '''Edmondston's Chickweed''', is an [[endemism|endemic]] [[plant]] found in [[Shetland]], [[Great Britain]].
It was first recorded in 1837 by Shetland [[botanist]] [[Thomas Edmondston]], who was 12 at the time. For a long time it was [[synonomised]] with Arctic Mouse-ear ''[[Cerastium arcticum]]'' but it is now widely regarded as a separate species. Although reported from two other sites in the 19th century, it currently grows only on two [[serpentine]] hills on the island of [[Unst]].
==References==
*Scott, W. & Palmer, R. 1987. ''The Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Shetland Islands''. Shetland Times, Lerwick.
*Scott, W. Harvey, P., Riddington, R. & Fisher, M. 2002. ''Rare Plants of Shetland.'' Shetland Amenity Trust, Lerwick.
[[Category:Caryophyllaceae]]
[[Category:Flora of Scotland]]
{{Caryophyllales-stub}}
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Cerastium arcticum''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Caryophyllales]]
| familia = [[Caryophyllaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Cerastium]]''
| species = '''''C. nigrescens'''''
| binomial = ''Cerastium nigrescens''
| binomial_authority =
}}
'''Shetland Mouse-ear''' ''Cerastium nigrescens'', also known as '''Shetland Mouse-eared Chickweed''' or '''Edmondston's Chickweed''', is an [[endemism|endemic]] [[plant]] found in [[Shetland]], [[Great Britain]].
It was first recorded in 1837 by Shetland [[botanist]] [[Thomas Edmondston]], who was 12 at the time. For a long time it was [[synonomised]] with Arctic Mouse-ear ''[[Cerastium arcticum]]'' but it is now widely regarded as a separate species. Although reported from two other sites in the 19th century, it currently grows only on two [[serpentine]] hills on the island of [[Unst]].
==References==
*Scott, W. & Palmer, R. 1987. ''The Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Shetland Islands''. Shetland Times, Lerwick.
*Scott, W. Harvey, P., Riddington, R. & Fisher, M. 2002. ''Rare Plants of Shetland.'' Shetland Amenity Trust, Lerwick.
[[Category:Caryophyllaceae]]
[[Category:Flora of Scotland]]
{{Caryophyllales-stub}}