Stellaria media(L.) Vill.

common chickweed

WFO wfo-0000436325 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Stellaria media, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. a Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201523992
Stellaria media, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. b Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205168573
Stellaria media, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202826863
Stellaria media, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. d Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203935341
Stellaria media, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. e Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203668095
Stellaria media, photographed by Celina Waldron
fig. f Celina Waldron, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202021734
Stellaria media, photographed by Deana Tempest Thomas
fig. g Deana Tempest Thomas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204973701
Stellaria media, photographed by Екатерина Кропочева
fig. h Екатерина Кропочева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201994814

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Flowering n = 7,048 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 7,048 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 30 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alsine apetala Kit. ex Nyman
  • Alsine avicularum Lam.
  • Alsine barbata Stokes
  • Alsine bipartita Gilib.
  • Alsine brachypetala Opiz
  • Alsine cupaniana Jord. & Fourr.
  • Alsine elongata Jord. & Fourr.
  • Alsine glabella Jord. & Fourr.
  • Alsine gussonii Jord. & Fourr.
  • Alsine media Druce
  • Alsine media L.
  • Alsine media var. transiens (Bég.) Tzvelev
  • Alsine pallida Dumort.
  • Alsine repens Vell.
  • Alsine vulgaris Moench
  • Alsinella wallichiana Benth.
  • Arenaria vulgaris Bernh.
  • Stellaria abortiva Gay
  • Stellaria boraeana Jord.
  • Stellaria cupaniana Nyman
  • Stellaria glabra Raunk.
  • Stellaria hiemalis (Bég.) Raunk.
  • Stellaria media f. apetala Rouy & Foucaud
  • Stellaria media f. malachioides Macloskie

and 6 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.