On the wonderful chickweed, and its poisonous lookalike

Bonetto, Diego

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Abstract

Foraging guide contrasting common chickweed (Stellaria media) with its poisonous lookalike petty spurge (radium weed): chickweed has a single line of white hairs running up the stem to each joint and a stretchy string-like inner core and never exudes milky sap, whereas petty spurge bleeds a caustic white milk that burns the lips. Anchors the milky-latex snap test and the single-line-of-hairs stem feature.

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Bonetto, Diego 'On the wonderful chickweed, and its poisonous lookalike'. Available at: https://www.diegobonetto.com/blog/on-the-wonderful-chickweed-and-the-poisonous-lookalike

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