Upright Chickweed
Upright Chickweed - Moenchia erecta
Description
A very short, erect, white flowered plant with greyish glaucous leaves. 4 petals, unlike other plants in this family.
Identification difficulty
ID checklist (your specimen should have all of these features)
4 petals
Recording advice
Close-up of flowers and general photo of plant in habitat. (RPR)
Habitat
Sandy habitats such as sandy grassland and dunes.
When to see it
Flowers April to June.
Life History
Annual
UK Status
Occasional in Britain.
VC55 Status
Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the Flora of Leicestershire (Primavesi and Evans 1988) it was found in 5 of the 617 tetrads, and and in the Flora of Rutland (Messenger 1971) in 1 tetrads
In the current checklist (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Rare, dry heath-grassland.
| It is listed on the current VC55 Rare Plant Register (Hall and Woodward 2022) as Locally Scarce |
David Nicholls
Hill Hole
27 May 2016
Mark Skevington
Croft Pasture
13 April 2021
Graham Calow
Croft Pasture
16 April 2014
Graham Calow
Croft Pasture
16 April 2014
David Nicholls
Croft Hill
03 May 2013
white-edged sepals
Graham Calow
Croft Pasture
06 May 2013
David Nicholls
Croft Pasture
09 May 2014
seeding
Mark Skevington
Croft Pasture
13 April 2021
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