Creeping Charlie flowers tend to be more in the blue range without the clasping leaves. Both plants have round shaped, scalloped leaves. A couple differences between henbit and creeping Charlie include the life cycle and flowering time and therefore control measures. Henbit is a winter annual and creeping Charlie is a perennial. The original creeping Charlie plants come back every year.
Henbit has to start from seed each year.
Henbit as a winter annual blooms very early in the spring and well before creeping Charlie blooms. Around here you will often see whole farm fields of henbit in bloom early in the season. Forgetting the weedy aspects of the plant, it really is quite pretty. Common chickweed , Stellaria media, is a low spreading plant that can grow 4-12 inches tall. It often grows in the shade of trees and shrubs or the north side of buildings.