familyChenopodiaceae
genusChenopodium
subgenusChenopodium subg. Chenopodium
subsectionChenopodium subsect. Polysperma
speciesChenopodium polyspermum
Chenopodium polyspermum var. acutifolium
Fl. Helv. 2: 259. 1828.
Introduced
Basionym: Chenopodium acutifolium Smith Comp. Fl. Brit., 42. 1 800
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 286.
Plants upright (proximal branches often nearly prostrate). Leaf-blades becoming red at maturity, apex usually acute. Inflorescences condensed, spikelike panicles, terminal and axillary.
Phenology: Fruiting summer–fall.
Habitat: Moist disturbed soils, gardens, waste areas, alluvial plains
Elevation: 10-500 m
Distribution
Introduced; N.B., Ont., Que., Sask., Maine, Mass., Mich., N.Y., Oreg., Wis., native to Europe, n Asia, in many other regions of the world
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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glabrous +
acute +
dense +
spikelike +
slippery +
not jointed +
not spinose +
leaflike +
absent +
1;5 +
reduced +
monomorphic +
connate +
dimorphic +
absent +
coiled +
curved +
developing +
large +
storage +
common +
white +
clustered +
bisexual +
mature +
small white +
inflated +
condensed +
true +
farinose +
ovate +
thin +
alternate +
not fleshy +
glabrous +
connate +
superior +
attached +
campylotropous +
axillary +
spikelike +
imbricate +
distinct +
absent +
inconspicuous +
accrescent +
fleshy +
infolded +
mottled +
nonadherent +
surrounding +
farinaceous +
copious +
absent +
absent +
Fl. Helv. +
1828 +
centrifugal +
inferior +
fusiform +
thickened +
scurfy +
inflated +
brown-black +
horizontal +
rounded +
Introduced +
cylindric +
not imbricate +
absent +
absent +
branched +
stellate +
glabrous +
not fleshy +
filiform +
lacking +
reduced;small +
fleshy +
absent +
prickly +
variable +
indistinct +
shiny +
verrucate +
Chenopodium polyspermum var. acutifolium +
Chenopodium polyspermum +
variety +
depressed-ovoid +
annual +
upright +
not imbricate +
absent +