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Means of control 
Prevent seed development by early and frequent hoe-cutting. 
Forked Chickweed, like Common Chickweed, may be killed with a 
spray of Iron sulfate or Copper sulfate if taken just before or during 
its first bloom, when it is most tender and more or less hairy. 
CARPETWEED 
Molligo verticillata, L. 
Other English names: Indian Chickweed, Whorled Chickweed. 
Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: May to September. 
Seed-time: June to October. 
Range: New Brunswick to Ontario and Minnesota, southward to 
the Gulf of Mexico. 
Habitat: Gardens, lawns, fields, roadsides, and waste places. 
Like Purslane and Common Chickweed, this plant seems almost 
domesticated in its liking for cultivated fields and gardens. It is 
frequent along sandy roadsides, and springs up in the crevices of 
city pavements and _side- 
walks. 
Stems three inches to a 
foot long, smooth, prostrate, 
branching in all directions 
from the slender root and 
forming circular mats. 
Leaves in whorls of five or 
six, spatulate, sessile, entire, 
a half-inch to an inch long. 
Flowers, axillary, very small 
and without petals but hav- 
ing a five-parted calyx, white 
inside and green without, 
three stigmas, and five sta- 
mens if they alternate with 
the sepals or three stamens if ts 
they alternate with the three — Fig. 87. — Carpetweed (Mollugo verti- 
cells of the ovary. Seed cap- cillata). X $. 
