Chickweed or Stitchwort?

[littlebiglane]

Can you help? Found on hedgerow/wayside

 

[stuart f]

Hi littlebiglane,i think you have Stitchwort there.

Heres link to Chickweed,the leaves are quite different as you can see from the photo.
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/P2/P29953.php

Cheers Stuart.

 

[rawshak]

This is indeed Greater Stitchwort. The easiest way to tell the difference is that the Sepals (the green sheathes behind the petals), are longer than the petals in Chickweed, about equal in Common Mouse-ear (although this also has a distinctive 'ear' leaf shape), and shorter in the Stichwort.

 

[littlebiglane]

Thanks guys. Most obliged.

 

[Kerne]

Chickweed has a single line of hairs up the stems, while its look-alikes (eg the poisonous yellow pimpernel) have hairless stems.

 

[Jumbalaya]

What you have there is one of the stitchworts. Common Chickweed [Stellaria media] doesn't have pointed leaves like those show, and are very small and almost oval in shape.
Can reach about 1/2 inch in length if specimens are growing in exceptional conditions.

Best
M