| Chenopodium album L. | |||
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| Family | Chenopodiaceae — APG family: Amaranthaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Chenopodium paganum Rchb. | ||
| Common name | pigweed | ||
| Description | Plant more or less mealy, with short, strict branches; leaves longer than broad, rhomboid to lanceolate, toothed, highly variable in form; inflorescence lacking leaves at top; flowers in densely crowded glomerules; perianth segments keeled; seeds 1.2-1.7 mm in diameter, lustrous, not pitted. | ||
| Ecology | An introduced weed. Described from Europe. | ||
| Uses | The leaves can be eaten raw or boiled. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.