Scientific name: Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
Common name: Common Chickweed
Description
Habit: A slightly hairy annual.
Stems: Trailing, sprawling, with weak stems, some hairs on vertical lines on stems; to 50 cm long.
Leaves: Pale green, opposite, simple, oval and with the lower ones stalked.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, in cymes; sepals 5, 3-5 mm across; petals 5, shorter than the sepals, 1-3 mm across and divided almost to the base into two narrow lobes; stamens 3; styles 3, ovary superior.
Fruits: A capsule.
Habitat: Cultivated ground, roadsides, farmyards, waste ground, sand-dunes and other open communities.
Distribution: Very frequent throughout and locally abundant.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No