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Bayer Code : steme

Scientific name: Stellaria media (L.) Villars

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Caryophyllaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: common chickweed

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Vogelmiere ; ES : hierba pajarera ; FR : mouron des oiseaux ; IT : centocchio ; PT : morugem-branca ; EN : common chickweed ; NL : vogelmuur ; DK : almindelig fuglegraes

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical to oval, terminating in a point, sessile.

- Entire leaves, elliptical to oval, Entire margin.

Adult plant snapshot Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 5 to 40 cm. Light green.

- Stem round, spreading, prostrate or ascendant, with single line of hairs between nodes.

- Leaves oval, acute, the lower leaves opposite, rather long stalked (petioles bordered with hair), upper leaves sessile.

- Flowers white sometimes greenish, small terminal cymes ; leafy bracts ; sepals oblong, pubescent or glabrous ; petals deeply divided into two, shorter than the calyx ; 3 to 5 stamens ; styles close to the stamens.

- Fruit : capsule ovoid, somewhat longer than the calyx.

- Populations exist which are resistant to sulfonylureas in Canada, to mecoprop in Great Britain and to triazines in Germany and in Austria. Used as a potherb and also employed in medicine. Biological type: annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Present     Germany  Present     Denmark  Present     Spain  Present     France  Present     Great Britain  Present     Italy  Present     Portugal Present    

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