Stellaria media
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Stellaria media, chickweed, is an annual flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to Eurasia and naturalized throughout the world, where it is a weed of waste ground, farmland and g
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Chickweeds have a line of hairs along one side of stem.
The sepals have very long hairs.
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Nanakusa-no-sekku
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The Festival of Seven Herbs or Nanakusa no sekku is the long-standing Japanese custom of eating seven-herb rice porridge on January 7; one of the Gosekku.
Stellaria media
…and is used as a leaf vegetable, often raw in salads. It is one of the ingredients of the symbolic dish consumed in the Japanese springtime festival, Nanakusa-no-sekku. Some varieties or similar species may be too fibrous to eat. It is said to have medicinal properties and is used in folk medicine. It has been used…
Nanakusa being prepared
Nanakusa-gayu
Chickweed
Dianthus superbus var. longicalycinus in Mount Ibuki 2011 08 28