Common Chickweed / نَجمِيَّة وَسيطَة

عُشبَة العَلَق / حَشيشَة القِزاز

Stellaria media (L.) Vill.

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Edibility and Usage

Edibility

Delicious

Edible part

Flowers
Leaves
Pods
Stems

Preparation

Cooked
Raw
Salads

Blooming period

February to March

Foraging period

January to April

Seed collection period

April to May

Description

Perenniality

Annual

Petal colour

White

Leaf type

Entire

Life form

Annual

Scientifc data

Genus

Stellaria L.

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Wikidata item

Q158711

GBIF Item

Stellaria media (L.) Vill. (5384604)

Conservation status (IUCN)

Least concern

References

de Cortes Sánchez-Mata, M., & Tardío, J. (Eds.). (2016). Mediterranean wild edible plants: ethnobotany and food composition tables. Springer.
Khela, S. 2012. Stellaria media. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T202975A2758351. Accessed on 29 May 2022.
Stellaria media (L.) Vill. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-29.
Wild Edible. Chickweed. (2022, May 29).

Citation

Stellaria media (L.) Vill. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/793 accessed via barari.org on 4/13/2026.