Chenopodium capitatum (L.) Aschers.
 
FamilyChenopodiaceae — APG family: Amaranthaceae
SynonymsBlitum capitatum L.
Common namestrawberry blite
DescriptionGlabrous, 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.
EcologyWaste places, cultivated soil, river bars.
UsesThe young leaves can be eaten boiled.
Hultén's Flora About

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.