About common chickweed
Stellaria media, chickweed, is an annual flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to Eurasia and naturalized throughout the world, where it is a weed of waste ground, farmland and gardens. It is sometimes grown as a salad crop or for poultry consumption.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Stellaria media
- Genus
- Stellaria
- Family
- CARYOPHYLLACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Degraded forest areas in high ranges
- Distribution
- Cosmopolitan
- Flowering & fruiting
- January-March
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Hindi
- Buch-bucha बुच-बुचा
Botanical family
Caryophyllaceae
Pink Family
common chickweed belongs to the Caryophyllaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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