Common Name: common chickweed, starweed, starwortScientific Name: Stellaria media (L.) Vill.Family Name: Caryophyllaceae - Pink FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced winter annual, reproducing by seed Stemsprostate with end ascending, light green, branched, single row of hairs, rooting at nodes Leavesopposite, broadly ovate to heart-shaped, tips pointed, lower petioled, upper sessile, petioles with single row of hairs Flowers5-petaled white, deeply notched (appear to be 10-petaled), sepals long; solitary or clustered, terminal and axillary