Chickweed flowers are small white and are held tightly in the upper leaf axils.
Chickweed flower definition.
The leaves are shiny and oblong with a point at the end.
Each flower is about 1 cm across with 5 deeply notched white petals usually with ten stamens with light yellow to greenish or even reddish anthers and a round green ovary in the centre with 5 filament like styles at the top.
It is native to eurasia and naturalized throughout the world.
It is useful as a food for canaries.
Chickweed stellaria media linn villars also called starweed satin flower or mouse ear is a common weed in the carnation family.
Chickweed species of small leaved weeds of the pink or carnation family caryophyllaceae.
It grows low to the ground has a hairy stem and produces.
It usually grows to 45 cm 18 inches but becomes a low growing and spreading annual weed in mowed lawns.
Common chickweed forms small mounds in your lawn about three to eight inches in diameter.
Media a common garden weed with small white flowers.
They open into loose branching clusters with age on 1 2 inch hairy stalks.
The common chickweed or stitchwort stellaria media is native to europe but is widely naturalized.
Any of various caryophyllaceous plants of the genus stellaria esp s.
Mouseear chickweed can be distinguished from its cousin by its elliptical dark green hairy leaves.
It forms small delicate daisy like white to pink flowers in the spring.