Nearctica - Eastern Wildflowers - Chenopodiaceae - Lamb's Quarters (Chenopodium album)

Lamb's Quarters

(Chenopodium album)

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Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

Chenopodium simplex

Maple-leaved Goosefoot has flower spikes more interrupted and open. The leaves are brighter green and have fewer, but more prominent teeth.

Chenopodium capitatum

The flowers of Strawberry Blite are arranged in rounded clusters.

Chenopodium ambrosioides

The leaves of Mexican Teas are wavy, not toothed.

Atriplex patula

Orache has small, more open flower spikes and the leaves have projecting lobes at the lower margin of the leaf.

Lamb's Quarters (Chenopodium album)

Alien: Native of Europe.

Identification: Flowers in short, compact, rounded spikes, green-white and mealy, arising from the leaf axils. Flowers often turning reddish with age. Stem mealy and branched. Leaves with lower side mealy, diamond-shaped, the outer margin usually heavily toothed. Plant 1 to 3 feet in height.

Distribution: Throughout North America.

Habitat: Lamb's Quarters is an abundant weed of disturbed habitats such as empty lots, fields, gardens, and roadsides.

Flowering period: June to October.

Lamb's Quarters (Chenopodium album)

Similar Species:

Maple-leaved Goosefoot (Chenopodium simplex)

Strawberry Blite (Chenopodium capitatum)

Mexican Tea (Chenopodium ambrosioides)

Orache (Atriplex patula)

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