Adjective modifier

• common: In a comparison of different tillage regimes in winter cereals, common mouse-ear was favored by reduced cultivations.

Modifies a noun

• cerastium: This is the only known site for the Scottish endemic subspecies of common mouse-ear Cerastium fontanum ssp. scoticum.

• hawkweed: Mouse-ear hawkweed usually forms flat rosettes in grazed grassland.