Well I have both here. Stellaria media grows happily (in winter) on our apartment podium garden/lawn and I harvested a great deal of it this year. Cerastium glomeratum I noticed for the first time this year as we came into spring - some lawns near where I parked my car had the familiar end-of-season chickweed seed pods, but these were much hairier and thicker than S. media. I wanted to get my ID right before I tried, but it's sadly too late now! I'll have to wait until April next year when it cools down again and the chickweed reappears. Our chickweed season is now over! It's on to portulac and amaranth season!
Yeah, Stellaria media is the most common where I live and basically what I base everything on. Gerard called 15 different plants "chickweed". All the old herbalists included mouse ear chickweed or hairy chickweed with regular chickweed. I kind of gave up on classification. Even a weed here in NC called Mexican Mint, which is so not a mint, basically looks tastes and acts like a chickweed. Sometimes with the really broad categories like chickweed, I just have to admit that I really don't know for sure which specific plat is being referenced from Ancient Greece to Native American everything in between, and just look at it like folks used to - if it isn't toxic, and it is similar, just consider it a close cousin even if it isn't technically. Wait until we get to the plantains and clovers!
I thought chickweed was genus Stellaria... which one is yours?
It is confusion over old taxonomy. Stellaria or cerastium. Use is essentially interchangeable.
Damn botanists!
Well I have both here. Stellaria media grows happily (in winter) on our apartment podium garden/lawn and I harvested a great deal of it this year. Cerastium glomeratum I noticed for the first time this year as we came into spring - some lawns near where I parked my car had the familiar end-of-season chickweed seed pods, but these were much hairier and thicker than S. media. I wanted to get my ID right before I tried, but it's sadly too late now! I'll have to wait until April next year when it cools down again and the chickweed reappears. Our chickweed season is now over! It's on to portulac and amaranth season!
Yeah, Stellaria media is the most common where I live and basically what I base everything on. Gerard called 15 different plants "chickweed". All the old herbalists included mouse ear chickweed or hairy chickweed with regular chickweed. I kind of gave up on classification. Even a weed here in NC called Mexican Mint, which is so not a mint, basically looks tastes and acts like a chickweed. Sometimes with the really broad categories like chickweed, I just have to admit that I really don't know for sure which specific plat is being referenced from Ancient Greece to Native American everything in between, and just look at it like folks used to - if it isn't toxic, and it is similar, just consider it a close cousin even if it isn't technically. Wait until we get to the plantains and clovers!
Good chili Mexican.