STITCHWORT

We don't seem to have any stitchwort at Filnore Woods.  This was one of several patches of this delicate flower growing alongside a hedgerow near the Mundy Playing Field

The five petals are deeply cleft and the stems are as weak as stitches of thread and so need the support of surrounding plants to get up to any height.

This is actually the greater stitchwort (Stellaria holostea) but there is also a lesser stitchwort (Stellaria graminea) with similar but much smaller flowers.  They are related to chickweed but stitchworts have narrow pointed leaves in pairs - almost like short grass blades.