Common name: Erect Chickweed
Moenchia erecta (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb. APNI* 
Description: Erect annual glabrous herb with slender stems.
Leaves few, narrow-ovate to linear-lanceolate, 5–12 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide.
Cymes 1–3-flowered; pedicels 10–50 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 4.5–7 mm long, with wide scarious margins. Petals entire, two-thirds as long as the sepals, white.
Capsule ovoid, as long as the sepals; seeds numerous, minute, tuberculate.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Weed of moist sites in gardens, pastures and woodland. Native of Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *NT, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS
Other Australian states: *Vic. *Tas. *S.A.
Text by A. Doust
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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