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Some plants grow tall or have large showy flowers but others are more subtle. Common Chickweed falls in the latter category. Common Chickweed, Stellaria media , is a lowly and unspectacular annual plant but it is probably growing near where you live and it is likely to be in flower at the moment. Common Chickweed is well worth a closer look. Seen close up, the starry white flowers, growing against a background of pale green leaves, are rather beautiful. Each flower has five bifid petals i. Behind the petals are five green sepals. Towards the centre of the flower are the anthers which can vary in number from three to as many as eight and the pistil at the centre note 1. A single Common Chickweed flower. Five sepals, five bifid petals and five stamens though there can be as few as three and as many as eight. There is an unopened flower bud to the right of the photograph. It finds a home in a wide range of disturbed and artificial habitats. These include gardens and arable fields, farmyards, roadsides, on waste ground, walls and brownfield sites, and on refuse tips. Common Chickweed also grows on shingle banks and where farm animals and deer have poached the soil. In the tropics Stellaria media is usually confined to higher altitudes, as in Colombia, where it is one of the most aggressive weeds at metres above sea level. It is hardly surprising that such a common plant as Common Chickweed is known a variety of names. Common Chickweed can flower in any month of the year but here in East Anglia the peak of flowering is from March to June. Seeds often germinate in autumn and plants over-winter. Stellaria media tolerates harsh winters and can photosynthesise and grow even at temperatures below 5 degrees Celsius. The flowers may only open for one day, to be pollinated by insects, or stay closed and self-pollinate this is known as cleistogamy. The seeds also germinate in spring and the plants grow rapidly as the weather warms and the amount of daylight increases, producing flowers and seeds in as little as five weeks from germination. Common Chickweed often grows with other annuals with a similar growth cycles, such as Red Deadnettles , which I have already written about. Stellaria media is a very successful plant and for that reason not everyone likes it. Various birds and mammals also eat and excrete the seeds. It dies back in hot summers, where it benefits from a bit of shade. Fortunately it has shallow roots unlike bindweed and in a garden or on the allotment it is easy to remove using a hand fork. However, it forms a mat of vegetation and this allows it to compete with smaller plants and I find that the tangle of stems becomes difficult to remove without pulling up small vegetable seedlings at the same time. Note 3. But timing is everything. During the growing season, I mainly treat Common Chickweed as a weed. However, in late autumn and winter it becomes a very useful plant. Growing on bare soil it acts as a green manure crop, protecting the soil surface from winter rains and snow and reducing soil compaction and nutrient loss. It is the foodplant of several species of moth, including the Yellow Shell. As the name suggests, Common Chickweed can be used to feed hens and when I was a child in Scotland we raised frog tadpoles on a regular supply of fresh Common Chickweed leaves note 5. Humans can eat Common Chickweed too. Since Common Chickweed is abundant and fast growing it is surely the ultimate in sustainable foods. Fresh leaves make a pleasant and nutritious addition to a salad. I think the taste is pleasant, especially in a mixed salad. I think I can detect a slight soapiness to Common Chickweed leaves, but possibly only because I know that the plants contain mildly toxic saponins note 7. Saponins are broken down by thorough cooking. Richard Mabey suggests cooking sprigs of Common Chickweed with butter, seasoning and chopped onions. This is apparently very good with rich meat note 2. Stellaria media seeds contain I would also avoid arable fields away from organic farms pesticide pollution. Common Chickweed has a number of herbal uses. It can be used in the external treatment of any kind of itching skin condition, as a cream or infusion in bath water. I tried it several years ago when I had eczema on my hands and it was better than most of the other creams I tried although eventually a cream using colloidal oatmeal proved to be the answer. Common Chickweed has also been used to make an eyewash and has been taken internally to treat chest complaints and aid digestion — though it should not be taken by pregnant women or in too large a quantity note 7. It also includes some great pictures of Common Chickweed, as does the wonderful Wild Flower Finder website. There are nine species in the British Isles. Stellaria media has 3 — 5 8 stamens, whereas its close relatives Stellaria pallida has 1 — 2 3 stamens and Stellaria neglecta has ten. Seed size is another useful characteristic for separating these three species. Stellaria pallida Lesser Chickweed is a small and short-lived annual, with sickly-looking yellow foliage. It grows on bare sandy soils on coastal dunes and inland. Stellaria neglecta Greater Chickweed is an annual or perennial. It usually grows more upright and is larger than Stellaria media and prefers shady, damp places. Stellaria media is normally an annual but can sometimes be a short-lived perennial. There are also some larger, prettier species, such as Stellaria holostea Greater Stitchwort , which brightens up hedgerows and woodlands in May with its larger white flowers. It is a favourite of mine — I must write about it some day. Ltd, The classic guide to foraging — and still in print. Fragments of stem can sometimes root too. I leave patches of Red Deadnettles for spring bees. Note 5 — Common Chickweed worked until the tadpoles developed back legs and become carnivorous. Note 7 — Saponins in Common Chickweed are slightly toxic but are very poorly absorbed by the body and mainly pass through the gut without causing harm. An excess dose of Common Chickweed can cause diarrhoea and vomiting but you would have to eat a very large quantity to cause harm as much as your own body weight. The Plants For A Future website warns women not to consume plants containing saponins during pregnancy or during breastfeeding. Common Chickweed, Stellaria media.

Common Chickweed, Stellaria media

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Buying weed Murren