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Common Chickweed or Nodding Chickweed
Wetenschappelijk: Stellaria media
Stellaria comes from the Latin stella (star), which refers to the five two-part petals, which stand as an asterisk. Media means "middle".
Nederlands: Vogelmuur
Deutsch: Vogelmiere
Français: Mouron des oiseaux
Family: pink family or carnation family, Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Stellaria, Chickweed
Chickweed is an excellent plant food (green fodder and oilseed) for birds. Leaf and seeds are popular as bird food.
Almost all seed eating birds eat the seeds of chickweed, but also the leaves and stems are eaten.
| Size: | 10 - 40 cm. |
| Lifetime: | Yearling, rarely lasting. Therofyt (no winter buds). |
| flowering months: | the whole year (I-XII), peak from March to May (III-V) |
| Roots: | Chickweed has one root system, sometimes causing adventitious roots. Root depth to 10 cm. |
| Stems: | On the ground, a cylindrical stems with, among the nodes 1 row of hair. Chickweed grows placards. |
| Leaves: | Ovate to elliptic pointed evergreen leaves, more than 7 mm, with a long handle, only the top leaves have no stem. |
| Flowers: | White flowers 0.8-1 cm grroot, androgynous (male and female genitalia), petals are deeply 2-piece and almost as long as the sepals: 3 to 5 mm (sometimes the petals missing). There are three styles and usually three (sometimes more) stamens. Flower steal sticky beklierd. |
| Fruit: | Fruit box with 0.8 to 1.4 mm large seeds, usually dark brown. Steal fruit are ceding or beaten back. Seeds are long-lived (> 5 years) and dicotyledonous (germinating with two cotyledons). |
| Biotope: | Sunny to lightly shaded, open places on dry to moist, nutrient-rich, especially nitrogen-rich, often fertilized and recast ground. |
| Localities: | Fields, gardens, vineyards, fallow land, water edges (ditches), in gutters, between paving stones at houses, ruderal places, hedgerows, orchards, gardens, pastures (only torn meadow and fertilized or piece driven pasture) and shoulders (eg. Open spaces along contaminated locks). |
| Spread: | Around the world in temperate regions. Lacking in large parts of the polar regions and desert areas. |
| General: | Native, not threatened |
| Information: | Occasionally you see plants with black mottled leaves. |
There are in Benelux two closely related species for which chickweed resembles:
- Sea-chickweed (Stellaria pallida) grows mainly in spring and looks pale green. He makes a few 'sprayed' impression. The petals are often absent. The name Sea-chickweed based on the idea that the species occurs mainly in the dunes. But further investigation revealed that he also found in the interior, and on that has been overlooked.
- Hedge chickweed (Stellaria neglecta) is more robust than chickweed, has larger petals, ten stamens and the largest seeds. The species is uniform.
Specifics:
Guihelheil (Anagalis arvensis) and blue guihelheil (Anagallis coerulea) resembles bird wall by approximately the same growth habit, but the flowers are red, respectively blue.
Both species are highly toxic, but are fortunately not as common as chickweed.
The white flowers of chickweed are open all day, while the red flowers of Scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis) and the blue flowers of blue pimpernel (Anagallis coerulea) but all are open throughout the morning until about 14:00. In rainy and cloudy weather, the flowers will not open itself.
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Blue Pimpernel or Poorman's Weatherglass
Wetenschappelijk: Anagallis coerulea
Pimpernel is a composition of guichel (madness or rage) and salvation (healing), because it was thought that pimpernel mental illness and melancholy could heal.
Anagallis comes from the Greek word anagelao (I laugh), also because of the alleged effect of melancholy could be driven by the use of this plant.
Coerulea means blue.
Nederlands: Blauw Guichelheil
Deutsch: Blauer Gauchheil
Français: Mouron bleu
Family: primrose family, Primulaceae
Genus: Anagallis, Lysimachia
Do not give to the birds, very poisonous plant!
| Size: | 5 - 50 cm. |
| Lifetime: | Yearling. Therofyt (no winter buds). |
| Flowering months: | May, June, July, August, September and October. (V-X) |
| Roots: | Root depth to 20 cm. |
| Stems: | The lying or ascending stems not roots. They are square and bare. |
| Leaves: | Ovate to elongated ovoid, rarely opposite or in whorls of three incumbent leaves without the stem. Black gland dots at the bottom. |
| Flowers: | Blue, sometimes purple or green colored flowers, androgynous (male and female genitalia, crown lips have little or no glandular hairs on the edge. Petals are narrower than those of red Pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis) and cover not bleed together, about 6 mm long and 3.5 mm wide. they are cut at the top and they have four-cell glandular hairs. sepals finely serrated. |
| Fruit: | Fruit box. The seeds are long-lived (> 5 years). Two seed-lobe (germinating with two cotyledons). |
| Biotope: | Sunny, warm, open places on moist, calcareous, moderately rich soil (sand and marl). |
| Localities: | Fields (cornfields), recast land, undeveloped land, gardens (gardens) and ruderal places in granaries, flour mills and flour mills. |
| Spread: | All over the world, originally from southern Europe. Quite rare in Central and Southern Europe. |
| General: | very rare, endangered, Red List 2012 |
| Information: | TOXIC |
Specifics:
Guihelheil (Anagalis arvensis) and blue guihelheil (Anagallis coerulea) resembles bird wall by approximately the same growth habit, but the flowers are red, respectively blue.
Both species are highly toxic, but are fortunately not as common as chickweed.
The white flowers of chickweed are open all day, while the red flowers of Scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis) and the blue flowers of blue pimpernel (Anagallis coerulea) but all are open throughout the morning until about 14:00. In rainy and cloudy weather, the flowers will not open itself.
The plant should not be confused with the blue form (Anagallis arvensis subsp. foemina) of red Pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis subsp. arvensis).
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Scarlet Pimpernel (Shepherd´s-Weatherglass, Poor-Man´s-Weatherglass)
Wetenschappelijk: Anagallis arvensis
Pimpernel is a composition of guichel (madness or rage) and salvation (healing), because it was thought that pimpernel mental illness and melancholy could heal.
Anagallis comes from the Greek word anagelao (I laugh), also because of the alleged effect of melancholy could be driven by the use of this plant.
Arvensis means "growing on fields".
Nederlands: (rood of gewoon) Guichelheil
Deutsch: Blauer Gauchheil
Français: Mouron bleu
Family: primrose family, Primulaceae
Genus: Anagallis, Lysimachia
Do not give to the birds, very poisonous plant!
| Size: | 5 - 50 cm. |
| Lifetime: | Yearling. Therofyt (no winter buds). |
| Flowering months: | May, June, July, August, September and October. (V-X) |
| Roots: | Root depth to 20 cm. |
| Stems: | The lying or ascending stems not roots. They are square and bare. |
| Leaves: | Ovate to elongated ovoid, rarely opposite or in whorls of three incumbent leaves without the stem. Black gland dots at the bottom. |
| Flowers: | Red or flesh-colored, sometimes lilac, violet, blue or green colored flowers, androgynous (male and female genitalia, Long-stalked; corolla is as long or longer than the calyx, the edge of the crown lips close scrofulous fringed by more than 30 nodes . the petals 7 mm long and 6 mm wide and cover each other at the edges, a gift or slightly jagged. the sepals have a smooth edge. |
| Fruit: | Fruit box. After flowering curves flower steal it. The seeds are black and long-lived (> 5 years). Two seed-lobe (germinating with two cotyledons). |
| Biotope: | Sunny, rarely slightly shaded place to dry to moist, moderately nutrient-rich to nutrient-rich, often calcareous mineral soil (loamy sand, loam, sandy clay, loess, clay, marl and stony places). |
| Localities: | Fields (especially on the stubble), vineyards, vegetable gardens, coastal dunes (including through dune trails), along railways (railway property), ridges, along footpaths, verges (open or recast places), fallow land, chipped ditch sides, sandbanks, under bushes parks and forests (along moist forest trails). |
| Spread: | All over the world in gbeiden with a temperate or warm climate. Scarlet Pimpernel is originally from the Mediterranean area |
| General: | Native, not threatened |
| Information: | TOXIC |
Specifics:
Guihelheil (Anagalis arvensis) and blue guihelheil (Anagallis coerulea) resembles bird wall by approximately the same growth habit, but the flowers are red, respectively blue.
Both species are highly toxic, but are fortunately not as common as chickweed.
The white flowers of chickweed are open all day, while the red flowers of Scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis) and the blue flowers of blue pimpernel (Anagallis coerulea) but all are open throughout the morning until about 14:00. In rainy and cloudy weather, the flowers will not open itself.
The plant should not be confused with the blue form (Anagallis arvensis subsp. foemina) of red Pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis subsp. arvensis).
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Common groundsel or old-man-in-the-Spring
Wetenschappelijk: Senecio vulgaris
The name groundsel is possibly caused by the crosswise standing sheets, but more likely is that it is a corruption of the German name Greis Kraut.
Senecio comes from senex (old man), to soon become visible fruit fluff. Vulgaris means common.
Nederlands: Klein kruiskruid
Deutsch: Gemeines Greiskraut
Français: Séneçon commun
Familie: aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Asteraceae (Compositae)
Genus: Senecio, Groundsel
Almost all seed eating birds eat the seed of groundsel. Sometimes you can pull the plant and put in pot and filled with water in the aviary. After a few days the flowers ready to be eaten. There is but a single plant than cut the flower heads in nature, so the plant can produce more seeds.
Stems and leaves are poisonous, but the taste iz so bitter that no bird there'll eat. If a bird or fowl eat it anyway because they are no longer a green food have had more, then vomiting may result. It can only be dangerous if they get a lot inside.
| Size | 7-50 cm |
| Lifetime: | Eenjarig. Therofyt (geen winterknoppen). |
| Flowering months: | almost all year round (I-XII), usually from March to November (III-XI) with a peak from March to July (III-VII) |
| Roots: | |
| Stems: | The stems are not or few branched and often slightly hairy. No glandular hairs. |
| Leaves: | Leaves are green on top glazend and slightly fleshy, elongated, spring pieces (usually they are cut to half) with elongated toothed lobes. Crimped, mostly bald, and they have a slightly upturned edge. Lower leaves are stem-shaped narrowed toward the bottom, while the upper leaves are not stalked, not amplexicaul. |
| Flowers: | Yellow flowers in loose panicles with a few flower heads; 1 cm long and 4-5mm wide, androgynous (male and female sex organs). Usually no ray flowers. The involucre is high, black mottled (twice as high as wide). Petals have a black top, outer ring has approximately sixteen leaves (between eight and twenty). |
| Fruit: | One-seed achene or nut. Seeds are pressed hairy. Fruit Fluff is white. Seeds are long-lived (over five years). Two seed-lobe. |
| Biotope: | Sunny, open places (pioneer) in dry to moist, nutrient-rich, humus-containing, weakly acidic to calcareous soil (all soil types). |
| Localities: | Recast land, coastal dunes (also in elderberry bushes), waterfronts (ditches), debris, clear-felled, public gardens, in the joints of pavement, (highly weathered) ancient walls, berms (clearings), road edges, new dikes, flower beds, vegetable gardens, fields , curbs and landfills. |
| Spread: | Originally from Europe. Today on all continents, in areas with a temperate climate. |
| General: | Native, very common. |
| Information: |
The variety Senecio vulgaris var. hybernicus eight to thirteen, about 0.5 cm long ribbon flowers, you can find the nearest railway property.
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