Chenopodium album

Chenopodium album

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Chenopodium
Species:
C. album
Binomial name
Chenopodium album
Distribution, from GBIF
Synonyms
  • Atriplex alba (L.) Crantz (1766)
  • Botrys albus (L.) Nieuwl. (1914)
  • Chenopodium album var. commune Moq. (1849), not validly publ.
  • Chenopodium viride var. album (L.) Hartm. (1820)

Chenopodium album is a fast-growing annual plant in the flowering plant family Amaranthaceae. Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is elsewhere considered a weed. Common names include lamb's quarters, melde, goosefoot, wild spinach and fat-hen, though several are also applied to other species of the genus Chenopodium, for which reason it is often distinguished as white goosefoot.