Chickweed is a small white flower that grows wild. Though I saw the description pretty much in every book I only found one a couple of years ago. Here it covers big grassy areas in the park. The plant is edible too: you can eat it raw as salad or add to some other dish (it's tender so it does not require any cooking).
Chickweed (Felicita Park, Escondido, CA)
A feature that is helpful to identify chickweed is that is has 5 petals but each petal has a deep cleave so it looks like the flower has 10 petals.
Chickweed's Latin name is
Stellaria media and it belongs to the pink or carnation family (
Caryophyllaceae).
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