Stellaria media (L.) Vill., it is an annual or biennial herb, Stems, spreading to erect or decumbent, up to 80 cm, branched, somewhat succulent, usually short-hairy in longitudinal lines, rarely nearly glabrous. Leaves, opposite, petiolate near base, sessile upward. Leaf blades 0.3-4 cm long, ovate to elliptic, rounded to nearly truncate at the base, angled or slightly tapered at the tip, glabrous, green above, lighter green below, entire, the margins glabrous or inconspicuously hairy. Inflorescence, terminal clusters or sometimes solitary, the stalks 0.3-4.0 cm long, pubescent, ascending at flowering, often angled downward from the base at fruiting. The bracts herbaceous and resembling small leaves. Sepals 5, 4-4.5 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, lacking a reddish band at the base, bluntly pointed at the tip, the margins thin and white, finely hairy. Petals 5, deeply notched and appearing as 10, occasionally absent, 1-4 mm long, shorter than to about as long as the sepals, glabrous, free. Stamens typically 3-5, alternating with petals. Capsules 4-6 mm long, 4 mm wide, ovoid, glabrous, dehiscing via 6 apical teeth, with about 15 seeds. Seeds 0.9-1.4 mm wide, the surface tuberculate, the tubercles along the marginal portion broader than tall, more or less hemispherical, blunt or rounded at the tip, brown to reddish brown.
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