The Vogelmiere (Stellaria media), actually bird Sternmiere or chicken intestine, is a kind in the family of the carnation plants (Caryophyllaceae).

It grows one year's and is kosmopolit, i.e. spreads over the entire world. The adaptability resulted from that usually polyploiden Chromosomensatz and expresses itself also in the form form of the kinship.

Description

The plant forms often smaller lawns with its down-lying of 2-40 cm. The cross section of the rung is approximately and single-row behaart. The sheets are egg-shaped and pointed. The sheets growing down at the have usually a small handle, the upper sheets sit directly on.

The white blooms have deeply split which hardly tower above the The become about 3 to 5 mm long and are broad lanzettlich. In the bloom center the Vogelmiere has 3-10 with violet Staubbeuteln. From the blooms a cap-like fruit becomes later.

The Sternmiere flowers nearly the entire year over, from March to Octobers, with which bloom color knows.

The seeds are preferred of many kinds of bird as food (therefore it the name).

Habitat

The plant is a Nitrophyt and is thus an indicator for nitrogen-rich soils with good water supply. The Vogelmiere is since the recent Steinzeit a culture companion. It grows world-wide on fields, in gardens, on banks and also in forests. She is likewise a typical inhabitant of Schutthalden and Ruderalstellen.

Use

The game herb Vogelmiere is ranked by owners of garden despite its schmerzlindernden welfare plant qualities due to its strong Vermehrung among weeds. Apart from the welfare effects this plant possesses also a value as food and/or luxury. She tastes after young raw corn. Already 50 gram of Vogelmierensalat cover into for instance the Vitamin C need of an adult.

An excerpt of the fresh plant is used for the treatment by Rheumatismus and joint pain. See also: Hain Sternmiere, Kuckuckslichtnelke

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