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Giant Chickweed

Stellaria aquatica

Also called Water Chickweed

Giant Chickweed
Photo: Johann Georg Sturm. Painted by Jacob Sturm; published by Kurt Stüber, Public domain
Family
Caryophyllaceae (Pink & carnation family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Temp. Eurasia
Climate
temperate

About

Stellaria aquatica is a species of flowering plant in the carnation family Caryophyllaceae, known as water chickweed or giant chickweed. It is a perennial herbaceous dicot plant with stems between 10 and 100 cm (4 and 40 in) high, growing in humid, wet areas, for example, on the sides of gutters or under or between bushes. It occurs naturally in the temperate regions of central and western Europe. The flowers are white. The plants bloom between June and August.

Other Stellaria plants

Bog chickweed · Stellaria apetala · Boreal starwort · Northern starwort · Tennessee starwort · Fleshy starwort · Curled starwort · Stellaria cupaniana · Stellaria flaccida · Grass-like starwort · Saltmarsh starwort · Beach starwort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stellaria aquatica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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