stellaria pallida

Stellaria pallida, commonly known as lesser chickweed, is an annual herbaceous plant in the flowering plant family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to Europe and is an introduced species in North America.

Stellaria pallida forms part of a complex that also includes S. media and S. neglecta.

It is supposed that Stellaria pallida is the species that was described by Ucria in 1796 as Alsine petala. In 1828, Du Mortier, describing a form found in Belgium, applied the name Alsine pallida, which Piré (1863) ...