Blooms: May - August
Habit: herb
Duration: annual
Origin: Introduced from Europe
Distribution: Introduced throughout most of North America.
Habitat: Roadsides and waste areas.
Habit: herb
Duration: annual
Origin: Introduced from Europe
Distribution: Introduced throughout most of North America.
Habitat: Roadsides and waste areas.
Species Description:
General: Spreading to erect, freely-branched annual, 2-5 dm. tall, with some mealy coating, especially in the inflorescence.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, numerous, the blade deltoid to rhombic, 2-6 cm. long, rounded to acute at the tip, wedge-shaped to truncate at the base, irregularly wavy-dentate with 5-many teeth per side, green above and grayish beneath, the leaves only slightly reduced upward, narrowed abruptly to the slender petiole which is slightly shorter than the blade.
Flowers: Flowers sessile and single to glomerate in axillary and terminal panicles; perianth deeply 5-lobed, the segments oblong, rounded, not strongly keeled; stamens 5, opposite the perianth lobes; styles 2.
Fruits: The wall of the utricle adherent to the seed.
General: Spreading to erect, freely-branched annual, 2-5 dm. tall, with some mealy coating, especially in the inflorescence.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, numerous, the blade deltoid to rhombic, 2-6 cm. long, rounded to acute at the tip, wedge-shaped to truncate at the base, irregularly wavy-dentate with 5-many teeth per side, green above and grayish beneath, the leaves only slightly reduced upward, narrowed abruptly to the slender petiole which is slightly shorter than the blade.
Flowers: Flowers sessile and single to glomerate in axillary and terminal panicles; perianth deeply 5-lobed, the segments oblong, rounded, not strongly keeled; stamens 5, opposite the perianth lobes; styles 2.
Fruits: The wall of the utricle adherent to the seed.
Accepted Name:
Chenopodium murale L.Synonyms:
Chenopodium urbicum L.
Treated in Flora of the PNW as:
Chenopodium murale
Additional Resources:
PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Chenopodium murale specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Chenopodium murale specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.
Washington Flora Checklist: Chenopodium murale treatment.
E-Flora BC: Chenopodium murale atlas page.
CalPhotos: Chenopodium murale images.
USDA Plants Database: Chenopodium murale.
Rod Randall
Rod Randall
Paul Slichter, 2009
Paul Slichter, 2009
Paul Slichter, 2009
Paul Slichter, 2009
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