This plant was a little under a foot tall, with very small leaves that appeared in segments of about four up the plant aiming out in different directions from the plant in a sort of circular manner. At the top of the plant there were two flowers, and two that were just budding.
Cerastium is a genus of annual, winter annual, or perennial plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae. The around 100 species are commonly called Mouse-ear chickweed; different species are found nearly worldwide but the greatest concentration is mainly from the northern temperate areas of the world. A number are common weeds in fields and on disturbed ground.
