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{{Taxobox | color = lightgreen
| name = ''Moenchia''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Caryophyllales]]
| familia = [[Caryophyllaceae]]
| genus = '''''Moenchia'''''
| genus_authority = [[Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart|Ehrhart]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = ''Moenchia erecta'' <small>(L.) P. Gaertner</small><br />''Moenchia graeca''<small>(Boiss) Heldr.</small><br''/>''
''Moenchia mantica'' <small>(L.) Bartl.</small>
}}

'''''Moenchia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[plants]] in the family [[Caryophyllaceae]] with three [[species]] [[native]] to the [[Mediterranean Basin|Mediterranean region]] of [[southern Europe]] and naturalised in [[southern Africa]] and parts of [[North America]] and [[Australia]]. They are herbs, with an [[annual plant|annual life span]]. They have slender [[root]]s and thin [[Plant stem|stem]]s that are upright or ascending. [[Inflorescence]]s are one- to three-flowered and terminally end the [[Plant stem|stem]]s. The flowers are in spreading [[cyme]]s or solitary, with [[bract]]s paired that are leaf like. Named for [[Conrad Moench]]. Common names for the plants in this genus include ''upright chickweed''.
[[Category:Caryophyllaceae]]
[[Category:Flora of Europe]]

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