Tennessee Chickweed
Tennessee Chickweed is one of the species
that is rare in
Virginia primarily because it has a limited range. In the
Commonwealth, it has only been found in Russell, Scott, Washington,
Smyth, and Botetourt counties, and it has a similarly spotty
distribution in the mountain counties of neighboring states.
In each case,
Tennessee Chickweed prefers mature cove hardwood
forests and can be found scattered amid other spring flowers,
though the plant seems to bloom less often than its neighbors. In
fact, instead of carefully measuring petals and leaves when faced with
an unknown large chickweed, I usually look for the presence of blooms
--- if more than one bloom is visible on every fifth plant, the
species is unlikely to be Tennessee Chickweed.
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