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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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