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Family: Amaranthaceae
Chenopodium opulifolium

Citation: Schrader ex Koch & Ziz, Cat. Pl. Palat. 6 (1814).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Very similar to Chenopodium album, it differs from the latter in having long-petiolate 3-lobed rhombic leaves 2-3 cm long and wide, strongly mealy below, and in having keeled strongly mealy perianth-segments.

Published illustration: R.W. Butcher & F.E. Strudwick (1946) Further illustrations of British plants, fig. 301.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NL, SE.   Native to Europe and North Africa.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: March (1 record).


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