Chickweed (Stellaria media)

Chickweed is a very tasty nourishing spring herb addition to salads and snacking on a forage in your garden and in the meadow.

Stellarria, after its' star like flower, enriching the fallow raised bed.
There's Blessed Thistle Centaurea benedicta in there also doing its part to heal and enrich the soil
along with other plant, animal and spirit soil essentials.

One can smell and feel the Spring cleansing, rebirthing energetics of Chickweed as it nears the taste buds!
As always try to be very select in wildcrafting in not picking more than 25% of existing plant colonies, do not gather close (if possible further than 100 yards away from) to highway's fumes or power lines, ask permission from landowners and the plant colony, and give thanks to those people and plants for their symbiotic gift to you/us.

"Chickweed fresh herb (Stellaria media) is a mild food herb that is diuretic, anti-inflammatory and a vulnerary. Internally it is used for urinary irritation including interstitial cystitis as well as gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers. Topically Chickweed is utilized for inflammatory skin and mucous membrane conditions such as erosion of the cervix and vulvodynia.
Topical use - Fresh poultice of the crushed herb as needed
Extract - 60 -100 drops QID" 
© Herbal Therapeutics, 2003 8th edition by David Winston, Herbalist AHG & Ethnobotanist, p. 71

from http://www.stevenfoster.com

Chickweed Stellaria media          ©Steven Foster Photography