| Accepted name: |
Chenopodium album L. |
| Synonym(s): |
-Chenopodium album L. var. missouriense (Aellen) I.J. Bassett & C.W. Crompton
-Chenopodium album L. var. stevensii Aellen
-Chenopodium lanceolatum Muhlenb. ex Willd.
|
| English names: |
White Goosefoot
Lamb's Quarters
|
| French names: |
Chénopode blanc
|
| Classification: |
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Chenopodiaceae
|
| OPL Code: |
HCHEAL
(to track OPL, Newmaster et al. 1998) |
| Lifeform: |
2 |
| Lifecycle: |
A |
| Source database: |
FOIBIS, June 2005-2012 |
| Floristic Affinities: |
- |
| Distribution: |
-
|
| Ecosystem: |
|
| Microhabitat: |
|
| Ethnobotanical Notes: |
Cosmopolitic weed and ruderal plant, in the tropics mostly in the mountains. Today wild populations are frequently used as leaf vegetable(1). |
| Key Characters: |
- |
