中文名（Chinese Name）：繁缕
学名（Scientific Name）：Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
英文名（English Common Name）：common chickweed
别名（Chinese Common Name）：鹅肠菜
异名（Synonym）：Stellaria apetala Ucria ex Roem.；Stellaria monogyna D. Don；Alsine avicularum Lam.；Alsine barbata Stokes；Alsine bipartita Gilib.；Alsine elongata Jord. & Fourr.；Alsine glabella Jord. & Fourr.；Alsine gussonii Jord. & Fourr.；Alsine media var. transiens (Bég.) Tzvelev；Alsine repens Vell.；Alsine vulgaris Moench；Alsinella wallichiana Sw.；Arenaria vulgaris Bernh.；Holosteum alsine Sw.；Stellaria vulgaris Raunk.
科属（Family & Genus）：石竹科（Caryophyllaceae）繁缕属
形态特征（Description）：一年生或二年生草本，高10-30厘米。茎俯仰或上升，基部多少分枝，常带淡紫红色，被1 (-2) 列毛。叶片宽卵形或卵形，长1.5-2.5厘米，宽1-1.5厘米，顶端渐尖或急尖，基部渐狭或近心形，全缘；基生叶具长柄，上部叶常无柄或具短柄。疏聚伞花序顶生；花梗细弱，具1列短毛，花后伸长，下垂，长7-14毫米；萼片5，卵状披针形，长约4毫米，顶端稍钝或近圆形，边缘宽膜质，外面被短腺毛；花瓣白色，长椭圆形，比萼片短，深2裂达基部，裂片近线形；雄蕊3-5，短于花瓣；花柱3，线形。蒴果卵形，稍长于宿存萼，顶端6裂，具多数种子；种子卵圆形至近圆形，稍扁，红褐色，直径1-1.2毫米，表面具半球形瘤状凸起，脊较显著。2n=40-42 (44)。花期6-7月，果期7-8月。
分布（Distribution）：世界广布种，为常见的田间杂草。
用途（Use）：茎、叶及种子供药用，嫩苗可食。但据《东北草本植物志》记载为有毒植物，家畜食用会引起中毒及死亡。
引自中国植物志英文版FOC Vol. 6 Page 15
Stellaria media (Linnaeus) Villars, Hist. Pl. Dauphiné. 3: 615. 1789.
繁缕 fan lu | Caryophyllaceae  | Stellaria
Herbs annual, biennial, or perennial. Stems decumbent or ascending, pale purplish, 10--30 cm tall, sparsely branched at base, with 1(or 2) lines of hairs. Basal leaves long petiolate, distal leaves sessile or shortly petiolate; leaf blade broadly ovate to ovate-orbicular, 0.8--2.5 × (0.5--)1--1.5 cm, base narrowed or cordate, apex acuminate or acute. Flowers in sparse terminal or axillary cymes. Pedicel 0.7--1.4 cm, elongate and nodding after anthesis, slender, with 1 line of hairs. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, ca. 2--2.5 or 4 mm, outside glandular pubescent, margin broadly membranous, apex slightly obtuse or nearly rounded. Petals oblong, shorter than or subequaling sepals, 2-cleft nearly to base; lobes nearly linear. Stamens 3--5, shorter than petals. Styles 3, linear. Capsule ovoid, slightly longer than persistent sepals, 6-valved. Seeds numerous, red-brown, ovoid to compressed globose, 1--1.2 mm in diam., semiglobose-tuberculate or curved reticulate. Fl. Jun--Jul, fr. Jul--Aug. 2n = 40, 42, 44.
Fields. Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Sikkim; Europe].
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