This video shows ways to identify common chickweed, Stellaria media, easily.

It is a wild edible and medicinal plant that can be found across North America. Chickweed is a cold weather loving plant that can be found in woodlands, lawns, gardens, and disturbed areas. It's introduced from Eurasia and now can be found all over North America.

Chickweed - Stellaria media is one of the wild edible plants that are among the first that grow in the spring. It can grow throughout the year, but chickweed thrives in cooler temperatures, so look for it in the spring and also the fall or when the temperatures are a little cool. You can find it throughout the year if it is shaded or somewhere it gets lots of water. Look for chickweed this spring to get your foraging season started!

Identification

Chickweed grows low to the ground with a 3" to 15" long stem with oval to lance-shaped leaves that are flat and smooth edged.

Chickweed flowers have five with petals which look like ten because they are deeply cleft to the base. There are five sepals whci are longer than the flower petals and are hairy.

The leaves are opposite and between leaf nodes is a line of hair running up the stem that changes its position along the stem at each node.

*Please consume wild plants at your own risk! Consult multiple reliable sources before consuming any wild plants! This video is for information and entertainment only!*

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References

Gray, Beverley. The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North. Aroma Borealis Press. 2011.

MacKinnon, A. Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada. Lone Pine Media Productions (BC) Ltd. 2014.

Kallas, John. Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate. Gibbs Smith. 2010.

Thayer, Samuel. Incredible Wild Edibles - 36 plants that can change your life. Forager's Harvest. 2017.

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