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Scientific Name: | Stellaria media |
Common Name: | chickweed |
Family Name: | Caryophyllaceae |
Origin: | |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8b: (-9.4 to -7 °C) |
Plant Type: | Annual (true), Weed (horticultural) |
Mature Size: | < 0.1m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
Habit: | Horizontal, Spreading |
Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
Texture: | Medium - fine |
Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Herb, Wildlife food |
Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Ovate, Sinuate |
Flowers: | Cyme, White, Mar-Apr-May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
Fruit: | Capsule, Green, Sep-Oct |
Key ID Features: | |
Stems succulent with a single line of hairs and swollen at leaf node (ID feature of family); leaves opposite, ovate, most 2-3cm long x 8-13mm wide, except for a few hairs near the base, most of the blade glabrous (in contrast to mouse-ear chickweed); flowers ~5mm wide, white with five deeply notched petals |