Abelmoschus esculentus (L - the University of Maine at Fort Kent

Kermath, Bennett and Pulsipher - Food Plants in the Americs
SPANISH: amush, apasote, apazote, baíco, camatai, cashiva, cashua,
epasote, epasote de comer, epasotle, epazote, hierba fatua, hierba
hormiguera, hormiguera, huacatay, karé, lipasote, lukum, paicco,
paico, páico, paico mocho, paiko, pasote, payco, payqu, pazoli,
pazote, pazotl, pyco, qhishwa pimpinilla, té de España, té de
México, té español, yerba de santa maría, yerba sagrada, yerba
santa
USES/NOTES: Young plant is used to add its unique pungent flavor to
cooked foods in Ecuador and Mexico and medicinally elsewhere.
Leaves are added to tamales and other foods in Mexico. Seeds are
also edible. Leaf and root are used to combat intestinal worms.
NATURAL RANGE: Tropical and subtropical America, now widely naturalized
REFERENCES: Bailey Hortorium 1976, Bourke et al. 1987, Cárdenas 1969,
Duke 1992, Duke and Vásquez 1994, Foster and Cordell 1992,
Franquemont et al. 1990, FUDENA n.d., Joyal 1987, Kermath (notes),
Leung 1961, Mujica et al. 2001, Padoch and de Jong 1991, Price
1990, Rehm and Espig 1991, Rodríguez Martínez 1987, Soukup 1970,
Usher 1974, von Reis Altschul 1973, von Reis Altschul and Lipp
1982, Wiersema and León 1999
Chenopodium berlandieri Moq.
FAMILY: Amaranthaceae (amaranth or pigweed), previously
Chenopodiaceae (goosefoot)
ENGLISH: bacon weed, chou grass, fat-hen, frostblite, goosefoot,
Indian spinach, lamb’s quarters, lambsquarters, netseed
lambsquarters, pigseed goosefoot, pigweed, pitseed goosefoot,
poulette, southern huauzontle, wild spinach
SPANISH: bledo extranjero, chía roja, huauzontle
USES/NOTES: Young leaves are eaten raw or cooked, and seeds are eaten
dried and cooked or ground into meal. Seeds were possibly an
important food for early inhabitants of the North America.
NATURAL RANGE: Northern Mexico to southern Alaska
REFERENCES: Bye 1993, Facciola 1990, Harrington 1967, Heiser 1993,
Kindscher 1987, León 1987, Miller 1960, Native Seeds/SEARCH 1991,
Sauer 1993, Smith 1984
Chenopodium berlandieri Moq. subsp. nuttalliae (Saff.) H.D. Wilson &
Heiser [syn. C. nuttalliae Saff.]
FAMILY: Amaranthaceae (amaranth or pigweed), previously
Chenopodiaceae (goosefoot)
ENGLISH: Nuttall’s goosefoot, southern huauzontle
SPANISH: bledo extranjero, huauthli, huazontle
USES/NOTES: Seeds are a minor cereal grain and leaves are edible.
NATURAL RANGE: Mexico
REFERENCES: Facciola 1990, Heiser and Nelson 1974, Wiersema and León
1999, Wilson and Heiser 1979
Chenopodium botrys L.
FAMILY: Amaranthaceae (amaranth or pigweed), previously
Chenopodiaceae (goosefoot)
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