- Name
- Chickweed
- Common Names
- Common Chickweed, Winterweed
- Scientific Name
- Stellaria media
- Family
- Common Chickweed
- Description
- A cool-season annual plant that is sometimes considered a weed. Native to Eurasia and naturalized in throughout the world This plant forms mat-like growth, with stems that usually sprawl across the ground
- Leaves
- Leaves are oval-ovate, to broadly elliptic entire (toothless) along their margins, and hairless on the upper surface; the lower surface is occasionally hairy.
- Flowers
- The stems terminate in small (<1/4 inch) star-shaped, white flowers with 5 deeply divided petals (appearing to be 10)
- Bloom Time
- can bloom year-round
- Pollen Source
- minor
- Nectar Source
- minor
- Pollen Color
- yellowish
- Native to NC
- No
