Stellaria media

Stellaria media {{{latin_name}}}	Common chickweed
	Habit: herbaceous Height: ⇕  ? Width: ⇔ Lifespan: ⌛ annualwp Origin: ✈ Europewp Poisonous: ☠	Exposure: ☼  ? Water: ◍  ? Features: ✓ Hardiness: ☃ hardyCH Bloom: ❀ USDA Zones:  ? Sunset Zones:
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Stellaria media. Chickweed. A low, decumbent annual weed common in all rich, moist, cult. soils, especially troublesome during the cooler months of the growing season and in frames, and the like, during winter. Lvs. 2 lines to 1 1/2 in. long, the lower petioled, the upper sessile: fls. axillary or in terminal leafy cymes; sepals longer than the petals. Eu., Asia; naturalized. —It is considered to be a good fall and winter cover-plant in orchards and vineyards, but is never cult. It is a surface-rooting plant. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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