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usually uncountable, plural chickweeds
Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
especially common chickweed, Stellaria media, a common, edible weed in North America and Europe. quotations examples
I look at the little sprigs of chickweed trembling among the bean shoots and I am strangely moved. Such steadfastness! Such yearning! They want to live too. That is all they ask: to have their little moment in the world.
1993, John Banville, Ghosts
Stellaria pro parte - chickweed examples
Cerastium - mouse-ear chickweed examples
Other plants of similar appearance and habit:
Ageratum conyzoides, chickweed examples
Holosteum - jagged chickweed examples
Moenchia - upright chickweed examples
Paronychia - chickweed examples