The star chickweed (Stellaria pubera) is common throughout the woods of the eastern United States, and is a native plant in Maryland. Its white, star-shaped blooms are visible along the forest floor in springtime, fading after the canopy fills in. Though it may appear to have 10 petals, it actually has five deeply cleft petals. Its specific epithet (the second word in its official name) pubera, refers to the tiny downy hairs visible along this plants stem. It is often found on slopes and rocky outcrops—at Glenstone, it's visible on the slope between Andy Goldsworthy's Clay Houses (Boulder-Room-Holes), 2007, and Simone Leigh's Satellite, 2022. Here, it grows among other spring ephemerals like bloodroot, violet wood-sorrel, and others.

–Kevin McDonald