Common Chickweed

(Stellaria media)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growth habits: Erect, prostrate, or ascending weakly tufted to matted annual or winter herb

Root anatomy: Shallow, frail fibrous roots from weak taproot & from nodes

Leaf anatomy: Opposite arrangement, oval or elliptic

Reproduction: Inflorescences solitary or in small clusters at ends of stems or leaf axils, petals white and shorter than sepals

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}