Common Chickweed

Common Chickweed
Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
Synonym: C. vulgatum
Family: Caryophyllaceae, Pink
Genus: Cerastium ...

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.

Daniel Reed 1-Common Chickweed, 2 & 4-Mouse Ear Chickweed, 3-Lesser Stichwort, 5-Field Chickweed
There are several species of chickweed, including those in the genus Cerastium, in our area. Some are native and some naturalized.

Look for this common Chickweed along trails through open Spruce forests. What you will notice first are the bright white flowers.

common chickweed Stellaria media
common chicory; blue sailors; succory Cichorium intybus
common coleus Coleus scutellarioides
common cord grass Spartina anglica
common crupina Crupina vulgaris
common dandelion Taraxacum officinale ...

Clove-scented Broomrape, Club Sedge, Clustered Bellflower, Clustered Clover, Clustered Dock, Cocksfoot, Coltsfoot, Columbine, Common Bent, Common Broomrape, Common Butterwort, Common Calamint, Common Cat's-ear, Common Centaury, Common Chickweed, ...

neglecta (Common Chickweed) - S. nemorum (Wood Stitchwort) - S. nitens (Shiny Chickweed) - S. obtusa (Blunt-Sepaled Starwort) - S. oxyphylla (Robust Starwort) - S. pallida pallida (Common Chickweed) - S. palustris (Marsh Stitchwort) - S.

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.

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Family
Caryophyllaceae ...

The common chickweed (Stellaria media), the moss campion (Silene acaulis), and the common spurry (Spergula arvensis) are now nearly cosmopolitan weeds, having spread from parts of the Old World.

See also: Chickweed, Grass, Green, May, Pink