Citation: Villars, Hist. Pl. Dauph. 3:615 (1789).

Synonymy: Alsine media L., Sp. Pl. 272 (1753).

Common name: Chickweed, common chickweed.

Description:
Annual, stems weak, ascending, with a line of white hairs on one side leading down from the junction of the leaves and alternating at each node, to c. 40 cm high; leaves ovate, c. 18 mm long, c. 10 mm wide, the lower leaves petiolate, the upper sessile.

Flowers mostly in terminal cymes or less often axillary; pedicels glabrous; sepals 4-5 mm long, hairy; petals shorter, deeply 2-fid; stamens usually 3-10.

Capsule scarcely longer than the sepals; seeds c. 1 mm diam.

	Stellaria media
Image source: fig. 148 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 307.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE.   Naturalised in all States.   Native to ?Europe, now almost cosmopolitan. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: throughout the year, especially Sept. — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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