Flower, buds, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, ACT

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, ACT

Plants. Photo: Don Wood, south coast, NSW

Line drawing in Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions . Vol. 2: 43.

Common Name

Common Chickweed, Chickweed

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Notes

Introduced annual or biennial forb to 40cm tall or prostrate. Leaves opposite each other, 0.5-4cm long, 3-15mm wide, flat, hairless, the edges sometimes hairy. Flowers white, with 5 deeply cleft petals or 0 petals, single or in leafy open groups, at the tops of the stems, or on stems arising from the bases of the leaves.

Description (page 306) and photo (page 307) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Stellaria~media