Common Chickweed
Stellaria media
- Family: Pink
- Flower: 5 deeply cleft petals (seem to be 10),
- Leaves: entire, opposite; upper leaves clasping stem,
lower on short hairy stalks
- Size: Flowers .25" across; plant 3-8" high in bloom
- Habitat: Roadsides, open fields
- Blooms: April-Oct.
Often grows in thick, low-lying, and densly spreading mats.
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