| Chenopodium capitatum (L.) Aschers. | |||
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| Family | Chenopodiaceae — APG family: Amaranthaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Blitum capitatum L. | ||
| Common name | strawberry blite | ||
| Description | Glabrous, yellowish-green, erect annual; branches leafless at tip; lower leaves tri- angular, sinuate, sometimes hastate; flowers of two kinds, the one with 3—4 stamens, the other with 1 or no stamen, in spherical glomerules; calyx lobes oblong, fleshy in fruit, bright red. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places, cultivated soil, river bars. | ||
| Uses | The young leaves can be eaten 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.