chickweed

noun

• a small plant of the pink family with deeply cleft white petals, often growing as a garden weed and sometimes eaten by poultry.

  • Stellaria, Cerastium, and other genera, family Caryophyllaceae: several species, including common chickweed (S. media), with smooth leaves and stems, and mouse-ear chickweed (C. vulgatum), with hairy leaves and stems