Chickweed Blue Flowers

The stalk of star chickweed is stronger than the common chickweed but it is still possible to expose the inner core.

Chickweed blue flowers. Weed removal weed prevention weedkillers invasive garden plants weed seedlings herbal remedies. This is a gallery of flowers of common garden weeds with a blue to purple colour. Each flower is about 1 cm across with 5 deeply notched white petals usually with ten stamens with light yellow to greenish or even reddish anthers and a round green ovary in the centre with 5 filament like styles at the top. They open into loose branching clusters with age on 1 2 inch hairy stalks.

Lastly here s more useful information about common chickweed and its relatives. Anagallis arvensis or lysimachia arvensis commonly known as scarlet pimpernel blue scarlet pimpernel clarification needed red pimpernel red chickweed poor man s barometer poor man s weather glass shepherd s weather glass or shepherd s clock is a low growing annual plant with brightly coloured flowers most often scarlet but also bright blue and sometimes pink. The flowers are twice as large as common chickweed. Mouse eared chickweed is edible and the hairs help identify it from scarlet pimpernel however the thinner the leaves the easier it is to mistake for other plants especially when not in bloom.

Chickweed flowers are small white and are held tightly in the upper leaf axils. One distinguishing feature of the star chickweed is that its hairs extend onto the flower section. Blue purple weed flowers. If this pesky plant has infiltrated your lawn your best bet is to kill it with chemical weed killer and maintain the grass to keep it from growing back.

The two photos on the left of this composite image are common chickweed stellaria media while the two on the right are star chickweed stellaria pubera. The flowers of star chickweed are twice the size of common chickweed s flowers. Chickweed or stellaria media is a common winter annual found all across the united states chickweed has white flowers and small egg shaped leaves. Image of plant flower blossom 141661246.

Also try the red pink gallery as pale flowers can vary. The flowers of mouse eared chickweeds are also white and indented but not quite as deeply as that of regular stellaria chickweed. Photo about white flowers of chickweed and blue flowers of speedwell in spring.