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common chickweed
Stellaria media
28 photos
Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.
Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.
Easily confused with
Water ChickweedStellaria aquatica
Three-nerved SandwortMoehringia trinervia
Common mouse-ear chickweedCerastium fontanum
lesser chickweedStellaria apetala
Greater ChickweedStellaria neglecta
Thyme-leaved SandwortArenaria serpyllifolia
star chickweedStellaria pubera
Sticky mouse-ear chickweedCerastium glomeratum
Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.
Where it is recorded
| United States | 47,189 |
|---|---|
| Russia | 8,041 |
| California | 7,457 |
| Texas | 5,554 |
| Canada | 5,081 |
| British Columbia | 3,535 |
| United Kingdom | 3,456 |
| England | 3,169 |
| Pennsylvania | 2,706 |
| New York | 2,644 |
Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.
Classification
| Kingdom | Plants · Plantae |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta |
| Class | Dicots · Magnoliopsida |
| Order | pinks, cactuses, and allies · Caryophyllales |
| Family | pink family · Caryophyllaceae |
| Genus | chickweeds · Stellaria |
Study it in a deck
- Plants of Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
- Plants of Richmond city, Virginia, United States
- Plants of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia
- Plants of Zaporizhia, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine
Or build your own from the species near you.
Sources
- Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
- Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
- How much to rely on each source
Remember the name next time.
Practise common chickweed with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.