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Definition of Field chickweed
1. Noun. Densely tufted perennial chickweed of north temperate zone.
Generic synonyms: Chickweed, Clammy Chickweed, Mouse Ear, Mouse Eared Chickweed, Mouse-ear Chickweed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Chickweed
Literary usage of Field chickweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glacier National Park: Its Trails and Treasures by Mathilde Edith Holtz, Katharine Isabel Bemis (1917)
"The slopes and meadows near Glacier Park Hotel are coloured gaily with these
handsome flowers. field chickweed: One of the daintiest of white flowers in ..."
2. A flora of western middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"C. arvense L. field chickweed. Pubescent throughout; stems several from a decumbent
base, very leafy at base, nearly naked above, 5 to 9 in. long; ..."
3. A Preliminary Catalogue of the Flora of New Jersey by Nathaniel Lord Britton (1881)
"C. arvense, L. field chickweed. Warren Co., F. Knighton; Fort Lee, TF Allen ; on
the Palisades near Tenafly, NL Britton ; hanks of the Delaware near Camden, ..."
4. Introduction to Botany by William Chase Stevens (1902)
"field chickweed. Tufted, erect, or ascending perennials; lower leaves linear-oblong,
upper linear to lanceolate. ..."
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