Greater Stitchwort is a common wildflower growing in woodland and hedgerows, throughout most of Europe.
It flowers from April to June having small white flowers, 2-3cm across.
Each flower petal is deeply divided in the middle. At first glance the flowers look like having 10 petals but there are only five.
Its grass-like leaves are long and narrow, with rough edges. Like by other chickweed, the buds, flowers and leaves of Greater Stitchwort are edible, being used as a leaf vegetable, in salads.
Stellaria holostea is often cultivated as garden flower in borders and edges, also as a beautiful, white ground cover.
It can grow up to 50cm in height.
Photo were taken at our Botanical garden, in Cluj-Napoca.
5 comments:
Very pretty. Had you not pointed out the divided petals, I would certainly have thought there were 10!
So pretty!
Beautiful macro shot!
I thought there were 10 petals too, until you pointed out they were divided. Lovely plant.
Lovely details of this delicate flower in that macro image Maia.
I have not seen stitchwort blossoms here. Thank you for sharing these photos.
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