WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Common Chickweed (Stellaria media). Pink family. 
All year. 
A familiar low annual with branched spreading stem, and 
with very small terminal flowers ; sepals four or five ; petals four 
or five, shorter than the sepals, deeply two-parted. The small 
leaves are egg-shaped or oval, pointed, the lower with hairy 
stalks. Damp ground, everywhere. 
Field Chickweed ( Cerastium arvense) . Pink family. April 
to July. 
A perennial with delicate stem, sometimes branching, ascend- 
ing or erect, four to eight inches long, downy or nearly smooth. 
The flowers, one-half inch broad or more, have five two-lobed 
petals, longer than the pointed sepals. The leaves are very narrow. 
Dry or rocky places. Named from a Greek word for horn, 
referring to the fruit. 
Great Chickweed {Stellaria puhera) . Pink family. May, 
June. 
A freely branching perennial, a few inches to a foot high. The 
flower is rather small, with five sepals, and five petals, each 
petal split to its base. The upper leaves have no stalks, are 
rather obtusely pointed at both ends. Found in moist rocky 
ground, not north of New Jersey. The specimen sketched was 
found by the roadside near Washington, D. C. 
Mouse-ear Chickweed ( Cerastium vidgatum) . Pink family. 
May to September. 
A hairy annual with slender branching stem, six inches to a 
foot and a half high. The flowers are similar to those of the 
other chickweeds, but the (notched) petals are about the length 
of the sepals. The leaves are blunt-pointed, without stalks. 
Woods and open places. 
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