Common names used for Stellaria media elsewhere include starweed, satin flower and mouse ear. Here in Alaska, however, this pesky, low-growing plant is always referred to as “chickweed.” It is a ...

Long-term weed control in gardens and arable areas is likely to be a potent selective force favouring precocious development of annual weed species. In an experiment with Stellaria media (L.) Vill., ...

Q: I have an ongoing issue with common chickweed in my backyard – and this year it's spread from my flower beds to the vegetable patch nearby. What can I do to get rid of it for good? A: Chickweed ...

Its popularity with poultry earned it the name chickweed, and some people agree, touting Stellaria media as another weed that makes a tasty salad ingredient, according to the National Garden Bureau.

Chickweed is a wild, edible green that grows in most backyards. Dropping temperatures and declining amounts of daylight have been doing a real number on edible wild greens available from the landscape ...

While chickweed might seem relatively harmless, its propensity for dropping seeds means it can easily take over a yard. Choke ...

The dense, low-lying chickweed is notorious for choking out grass in lawns across the United States. The tiny starburst-shaped white flowers it boasts in spring are responsible for some of its other ...

Diners in a very upscale San Francisco restaurant tuck into the salad course of their tasting menu. There’s a delicately dressed leafy green on the plate with a taste somewhere between butter lettuce ...

Principal of The School of Garden Design, Lindsay Gray, (082 44 99 237) info@schoolofgardendesign.com, tells gardeners how to identify and get rid of the invasive American chickweed. THIS is the third ...