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The UK equivalent is the similarly named (and food for) Chickweed or Stellaria media https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellaria_media

It can flower within a month and set seed in 2-3. I'm often pulling it out by the handful, but it also can be eaten in salads, is a source of saponins and is used medicinally.

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Yaaaa, maybe you get more persistent chickweed than we do. Ours comes up in the spring, gets burnt to a crisp in the summer, and returns in the fall. Another juicy weed. Got a couple posts on that weed in the archive.

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Galinsoga flowers can resemble cobbler's pegs (Bidens species, and drop the politics!), but are much smaller. I like these more than cobbler's pegs, though!

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Yaaa, Bidens refers to 2 teeth, a seed characteristic, right?? ( rather than 2 brain cells remaining, which afflicts ~98% of the U.S. capitol now :-D ) We've got some Bidens spp. around here too, with those funky little seeds.

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Haha, yup that's right. Two clingy burrs ("teeth") on the seed for Bidens, and Bidens have larger petals on their similar-looking flowers (esp. B. album). Around here we call Galinsoga species mere "yellow weed." Only foragers like us know its edible :(

My wife drinks Bidens + clover flower tea every day to help her chronic inflammation. As a tea it is quite pleasant, actually.

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Is it red clover, Trifolium pratense or a different species that your wife uses with the Bidens?

I get the feeling that world would be much less inflamed if we all ate our leafy greens.

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T. repens, although we found a patch of T. pratense growing in an abandoned industrial lot at the end of our street when we went for a walk last week so I started to use those too.

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Flavor-wise, which clover do you prefer? People in our neck of the woods really go after the T. pratense, which has more fame for effects on females, but the T. Repens has a lot of usefulness too.

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They both taste the same to me!

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