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Common Chickweed, Stellaria media (L.) Vill.—“Mere Chicken Feed?”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael S. Defelice
Michael S. Defelice*
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Flights of pigeons were whirling over head, violets and stellarias were sprouting beneath the feet, and such was the January of Savannah.

Life in the South; from the Commencement of the War, C. C. Hopley, 1863.

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Intriguing World of Weeds
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Weed Technology , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 193 - 200
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Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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