Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia
Common Chickweed
(Stellaria media)
- annual to winter annual with branching prostrate stems; line of hairs grows on one side
of stem and leaf stalks; broadly oval, pointed, smooth leaves; small star-shaped white
flowers with 5 petals
- flowers throughout the season, maturing many seeds shortly after flowering;
approximately 15,000 seeds per plant
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Deeply divided star-shaped flowers |
Photos courtesy Dean Swan, Washington State University (retired)
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