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§1 Plant

Stellaria media (L.) Vill. ssp. media

vernacular common chickweed — subspecies · Caryophyllaceae


USDA
STMEM
GBIF
7104410
Rank
subspecies
common chickweed (Stellaria media ssp. media)
Platephotograph · Jim WalkerCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Caryophyllaceae Juss.
Genus
Stellaria
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • GL Greenland Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 340 counties across 19 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 340 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 340 counties across 19 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 24 I
Arizona view state ↗ 6 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 31 I
Georgia view state ↗ 12 I
Illinois view state ↗ 2 I
Indiana view state ↗ 4 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 54 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 62 I
Maine view state ↗ 14 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 30 I
Montana view state ↗ 54 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 8 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 I
Vermont view state ↗ 10 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/STMEM ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7104410 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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