Two white flowers for ID please

[Pete Collins]

Is this first one Common Chickweed, perhaps?



I think this may be some type of Bittercress. It has 4 (or 5!) stamen, but its leaves seem quite different to the Hairy Bittercress I spotted a few days ago.



Thanks very much!

[aeshna5]

1 is Common Chickweed, Stellaria media.
2 Looks like Hairy Bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta. This has 4 stamens; C.flexuosa, which can look like a welll grown version of this, has 6 stamens.

[KeenTeen17]

Originally Posted by aeshna5

1 is Common Chickweed, Stellaria media.
2 Looks like Hairy Bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta. This has 4 stamens; C.flexuosa, which can look like a welll grown version of this, has 6 stamens.

agreed. thanks for the info Aesh - I'll have to check all the bittercresses I see now

[Pete Collins]

Thanks aeshna5 and KeenTeen17!

I was just a bit confused by the Hairy Bittercress - the 'flower' looked identical to the one I had ID'd here a few days ago, but the leaves seemed different.

[KeenTeen17]

Originally Posted by Pete Collins

Thanks aeshna5 and KeenTeen17!

I was just a bit confused by the Hairy Bittercress - the 'flower' looked identical to the one I had ID'd here a few days ago, but the leaves seemed different.

It gets even more confusing because both Bittercresses are hairy despite the common names.

[leifus]

Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

It gets even more confusing because both Bittercresses are hairy despite the common names.

to make it more confusing I thought it was the wavy b. that was hairy and the hairy b. that wasn't!