Kromme-Geelhout-Database
Species details
Genus
Genus : Chenopodium
Family: Chenopodiaceae (Dicotyledon)
Taxon : Flowering plant
Group : Plant
SPECIES
albumNOTES
An annual herb up to 1 m. The leaves are greyish-green. A widespread weed from Europe.
AUTHORITY
L.Sub Author
Conservation
ExoticHabit
HerbaceousLand Invertebrate
n/aColour
- Notes: Insignificant green flowers are tightly packed towards the ends of the stems
- Colour: Green
Common Name
- White goosefoot
- Common pigweed
- Fat hen
- Lambs quarters
- Pigweed
- Wild spinach
- Bloubossie
- Hondebossie
- Hondepisbossie
- Misbredie
- Seepbossie
- Withondebossie
- Varkbossie
- Exotic
- Common pigweed
Habitat
- NOTES: Generally found in disturbed areas along the river bank
- HABITAT NAME: Riverside
Uses
- Skin treatments
- Used as a dusting powder for genital irritation in children
- Gastro-intestinal treatments
- Unspecified use
- Anthelmintics
- Unspecified use
- Insecticides
- Unspecified use
- Animal treatments
- Used to treat anaemia in goats and sheep.
- Food
- Known to contain toxic principles, including hydrocyanic acid, but young plants are commonly eaten as a cooked spinach
Months
- January
- February
- March
- April
- February
Synonyms for Species
- Chenopodium acerifolium
- Chenopodium centrorubrum Chenopodium giganteum
- Chenopodium jenissejense
- Chenopodium lanceolatum
- Chenopodium pedunculare
- Chenopodium probstii
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