Categories: Medicinal Plant
Stellaria_media (Wikipedia)
| Common chickweed | |
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| Flowers of the common chickweed | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Genus: | Stellaria |
| Species: | S. media |
| Binomial name | |
| Stellaria media | |
| Synonyms | |
Stellaria media - MHNT
Stellaria media, chickweed, is an annual and perennial flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to Eurasia and naturalized throughout the world. This species is used as a cooling herbal remedy, and grown as a vegetable crop and ground cover for both human and poultry consumption. It is sometimes called common chickweed to distinguish it from other plants called chickweed. Other common names include chickenwort, craches, maruns, and winterweed. The plant germinates in autumn or late winter, then forms large mats of foliage.
Chickweed (Wiktionary)
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Etymology
chick + weed
Noun
chickweed (usually uncountable, plural chickweeds)
- Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
- especially common chickweed, Stellaria media, a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.
- 1993, John Banville, Ghosts
- I look at the little sprigs of chickweed trembling among the bean shoots and I am strangely moved. Such steadfastness! Such yearning! They want to live too. That is all they ask: to have their little moment in the world.
- 1993, John Banville, Ghosts
- Stellaria pro parte - chickweed
- Cerastium - mouse-ear chickweed
- especially common chickweed, Stellaria media, a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.
- Other plants of similar appearance and habit:
- Ageratum conyzoides
