Common Name: common chickweed, starweed, starwort
Scientific Name: Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
Family Name: Caryophyllaceae - Pink Family

Identification Notes:

life cycle - winter annual, reproducing by seed

stems - prostate with end ascending, light green, branched, single row of hairs, rooting at nodes growth habit 1, growth habit 2

leaves - opposite, broadly ovate to heart-shaped, tips pointed, lower petioled, upper sessile, petioles with single row of hairs leaves

flowers - 5-petaled white, deeply notched (appear to be 10-petaled), sepals long; solitary or clustered, terminal and axillary flowers

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