Common Chickweed Complex
Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- 20 cm
Caryophyllaceae
Formerly Alsine media, Stellularia media
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. Eurasia, N. & NE. Trop. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 10 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Greek
- Στελλάρια η μεσαία
- Chinese (China)
- 繁缕复合群
- German
- Artengruppe Gewöhnliche Vogelmiere, Vogelmiere, Hühnerdarm
- Czech
- okruh ptačince žabince
- Bulgarian
- Врабчови чревца
- Hungarian
- tyúkhúr
- Slovak
- hviezdica prostredná
- Spanish
- gargantilla, miosota, pamplina de canarios
- Simplified Chinese
- 鸡儿肠, 长毛箐姑草, 鹅肠菜
- Russian
- Мокрица
- Basque
- Sapelar
- Swedish
- Nate
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Stellaria media (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.