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Habit :<br />

Stem :<br />

Leaves :<br />

Flowers :<br />

Fruits :<br />

Seeds :<br />

A polymorphous, non-aromatic, erect herb.<br />

0.3-3 m tall with angled stems that are <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

striped green, red or purple, clammy to the<br />

touch.<br />

Leaves very variable in size and shape,<br />

rhomboid, deltoid to lanceolate, upper leaves<br />

entire, lower ones toothed or irregularly lobes,<br />

10-15 cm long, with petioles <strong>of</strong>ten as long as<br />

leaf blades.<br />

Green, borne in clusters forming a compact or<br />

loosely panicled axillary spike.<br />

Utricle.<br />

Round, compressed, black and shining.<br />

Chenopodium album L.<br />

Common Name : Common lambsquarter<br />

<strong>Family</strong> : Chenopodiaceae<br />

<strong>Weed</strong> ID Manual 77

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