Pink family (Caryophyllaceae) ⁵

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Stellaria media, chickweed, is a cool-season annual plant native to Europe, but naturalized in many parts of North America. It is used as a cooling herbal remedy, and grown as a vegetable crop and ground cover for both human consumption and poultry. It is sometimes called common chickweed to distinguish it from other plants called chickweed. Other common names include chickenwort, craches, maruns, winterweed. The plant germinates in autumn o

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1. (c) Hugo M., some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Hugo M., https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131881901
2. (c) Jim Walker, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jim Walker, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109156455
3. (c) Alexander Baransky, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Alexander Baransky, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/96280830
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6. Adapted by Isaac Winkler from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellaria_media

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