Chenopodium berlandieri

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Chenopodium berlandieri

Chenopodium berlandieri, also called Pitseed Goosefoot, Southern Huauzontle, and Lambsquarters, is a species of goosefoot

Chenopodium

Chenopodium is a genus of about 150 species of perennial or annual plant herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoots, which occur almost anywhere in the world....
native to North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
, where it is very common in temperate regions and distributed throughout much of the continent.

It is a fast-growing, upright, weed

WEED

WEED is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel format. Licensed to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA, it serves the area. The station is currently owned by Northstar Broadcasting Corporation....
y annual plant

Annual plant

An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates flowers and dies in one year. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed....
growing to 10–105 cm tall. The leaves

Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
are variable in shape, roughly triangular, 1.2-12 cm (rarely 15 cm) long and 0.5-7 cm (rarely 9 cm) broad.

The species includes the following varieties

Variety (biology)

Variety is a low-level taxonomic rank used in botanical nomenclature.In botanical nomenclature or biological nomenclature, variety is a low-level taxonomic rank below that of species and signifies members of different populations can interbreed easily, but not usually such that all traits will run true, and in fact usually will blend...
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It is capable of hybridizing with the related introduced European Chenopodium album
Chenopodium album

Chenopodium album is a fast-growing weedy annual plant in the genus Chenopodium. The standard British name is Fat-hen;, though this is used for other plants also; the unambiguous name is White Goosefoot, and it is also known as lamb's quarters, nickel greens, pigweed or dungweed, or more ambiguously as just goosefoot....
, which it resembles, giving the hybrid C.

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Chenopodium berlandieri, also called Pitseed Goosefoot, Southern Huauzontle, and Lambsquarters, is a species of goosefoot
Chenopodium

Chenopodium is a genus of about 150 species of perennial or annual plant herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoots, which occur almost anywhere in the world....
native to North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
, where it is very common in temperate regions and distributed throughout much of the continent.

It is a fast-growing, upright, weed
WEED

WEED is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel format. Licensed to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA, it serves the area. The station is currently owned by Northstar Broadcasting Corporation....
y annual plant
Annual plant

An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates flowers and dies in one year. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed....
growing to 10–105 cm tall. The leaves
Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
are variable in shape, roughly triangular, 1.2-12 cm (rarely 15 cm) long and 0.5-7 cm (rarely 9 cm) broad.

The species includes the following varieties
Variety (biology)

Variety is a low-level taxonomic rank used in botanical nomenclature.In botanical nomenclature or biological nomenclature, variety is a low-level taxonomic rank below that of species and signifies members of different populations can interbreed easily, but not usually such that all traits will run true, and in fact usually will blend...
:
Chenopodium berlandieri var. berlandieri
Chenopodium berlandieri var. boscianum
Chenopodium berlandieri var. bushianum (Bush's goosefoot)
Chenopodium berlandieri var. macrocalycium
Chenopodium berlandieri var. sinuatum
Chenopodium berlandieri var. zschackii (Zschack's goosefoot)

It is capable of hybridizing with the related introduced European Chenopodium album
Chenopodium album

Chenopodium album is a fast-growing weedy annual plant in the genus Chenopodium. The standard British name is Fat-hen;, though this is used for other plants also; the unambiguous name is White Goosefoot, and it is also known as lamb's quarters, nickel greens, pigweed or dungweed, or more ambiguously as just goosefoot....
, which it resembles, giving the hybrid C. × variabile Aellen.

Although widely regarded today as a weed
WEED

WEED is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel format. Licensed to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA, it serves the area. The station is currently owned by Northstar Broadcasting Corporation....
, this species was once part of the Eastern Agricultural Complex
Eastern Agricultural Complex

Eastern Agricultural Complex was a group of plants that originally formed the basis of agriculture in eastern North America north of Mexico. These plants included squash , little barley , goosefoot or lambsquarter , erect knotweed , maygrass sumpweed or marshelder , and sunflower ....
of prehistoric North America, and was a fully domesticated
Domestication

Domestication or taming refers to the process whereby a population of living things becomes accustomed to a controlled environment by other plants or animals through a process of Selective breeding....
pseudocereal
Pseudocereal

Pseudocereals are broadleaf plants that are used in much the same way as cereals . Their seed can be ground into flour and otherwise used as cereals....
crop, similar to the closely related quinoa
Quinoa

Quinoa is a species of goosefoot grown as a agriculture primarily for its edible seeds. It is a pseudocereal rather than a true cereal as it is not a Poaceae....
C. quinoa.

Further reading
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