Chickweed
This weed is a prolific grower in spring, and it is also known by the names starweed, bindweed, and winterweed.
Index- plants in this Family
Caryophyllaceae / Pink Chickweeds (Stellaria )
Chickweeds is also known as Starwort. ...
Chickweed
Chickweed information
Chickweed - Stellaria media (in the Caryophyllaceae or Pink family) ...
Common Chickweed
Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
Synonym: C. vulgatum
Family: Caryophyllaceae, Pink
Genus: Cerastium ...
Chickweed flowers appear to have ten petals, but it is actually five petals, each one deeply cleft.
Stellaria media
( Common Chickweed )
Small clusters of flowers and opposite, smooth flowers on braching winter annual weed. Lower leaves have hairy long petiole. Weed common to most of North America. Seed reproduction.
Cerastium tomentosum vernac. Mouse-ear chickweed , Snow-in-summer
West Sussex, 2 June
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Snow-in-Summer is also known as Cerastium, Mouse Ear, Chickweed, and Silver Carpet.
Chickweed
Stellaria media
MEDICINAL: Chickweed is an excellent source of many B vitamins and various minerals. It is used to treat bronchitis, pleurisy, coughs, colds, and as a blood builder.
The Chickweeds shown on this web site share Alsinaceae characteristics: small, bright, white flowers and narrow, long, opposite leaves. Chickweeds generally are matted quite low to the ground, but several do grow to a slender 20 inches.
Umbellate Chickweed, Unbranched Bur-reed, Upland Enchanter's Nightshade, Upright Brome, Upright Chickweed, Upright Clover, Upright Goosefoot, Upright Hedge Parsley, Upright Spurge, Upright Vetch, Upright Yellow Oxalis ...
Mouse-ear, Clammy Chickweed, Chickweed,Clammy
Species:
Cerastium glomeratum ...
Baby's breath and chickweed are well-known members. Many species of the family contain at least a small amount of saponin, most notably the soapwort plant (Saponaria).
Boreal mouse-ear chickweed Cerastium biebersteinii
Boston ivy Parthenocissus tricuspidata
bougainvillea; paper flower Bougainvillea glabra
bouncing Bet; soapwort Saponaria officinalis
Bradford pear, Callery pear Pyrus calleryana ...
The name 'Mouse-ear' is also applied to 'Mouse-ear Chickweed,' a plant of the genus Cerastium, to a plant of the genus Myosotis, valued for its medicinal properties, and to various kinds of Woundworts. Culpepper gives many uses for Mouse-ear Hawkweed.
Chickweed, field mouse-ear (Cerastium arvense): Method 1
Clover, white (Trifolium repens): Method 1
Cranesbill, dove's foot (Geranium molle): Method 5
Daisy (Bellis perennis): Method 2
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale): Method 3 ...
family that have indigenous American species include the pearlworts (genus Sagina), sandworts (Arenaria), campions and catchflies (species of several genera, especially Lychnis and the widespread Silene), sand spurries (Spergularia), and chickweeds ...
Tilling the soil will kill existing stands of common chickweed and other winter annuals. Annual bluegrass is a common winter annual grass, while henbit, common chickweed and wild mustard are common winter annual broadleaf weeds.
It is almost universally known as Snow-in-Summer, but in some places it is called Mouse-eared Chickweed, after the furry leaves. This name, however, is more commonly applied to the similar but weedier C. vulgatum, despite that the gardened C.
Purslane is sensitive to frost, so I waited until May 1, when chickweed bloomed and apple leaves unfurled, to sow the tiny black seeds of a green-leaved cultivar in my zone 5 garden. I lightly covered seeds a half-inch apart in rows six inches apart.
annuals typically grow low to the ground, where they are usually sheltered from the coldest nights by snow cover, and make use of warm periods in winter for growth when the snow melts. Some common winter annuals include henbit, deadnettle, chickweed, ...
When the carpels are united, as in the pear, arbutus and chickweed, the pistil becomes syncarpous. The number of carpels in a pistil is indicated by the Greek numeral.
 See also: May, Grass, Green, Pink, Medic
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