112 CHENOPODIACEAE (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY) 



MAPLE-LEAVED GOOSEFOOT 



Chenopodium hybridum, L. 



Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom: July to September. 



Seed-time : August to November. 



Range: Quebec to the Northwest Territory and British Columbia, 



southward to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Kansas, Utah, and 



New Mexico. Also a native of Europe. 

 Habitat: Open woods and thickets, farmyards, roadsides, waste 



places ; a frequent tenant of city vacant lots. 



A tall and handsome species, differing from others of its kind in 

 that it is fond of shade. It is strong-scented, the odor somewhat 

 like that of Stramonium. 



Stem two to five feet or more in height, erect, rather slender, 

 grooved, smooth, green, with many spreading branches. Leaves 

 large, smooth, thin, deep green, not mealy, the lower ones some- 

 times four inches long, ovate, long-pointed, with one to four large, 

 pointed teeth on each side, the base truncate or rounded, petioles 

 rather long and slender ; the upper leaves lance-shaped, usually 

 entire. Flowers in large, loosely spreading, terminal and axillary 

 panicles ; calyx green, its five lobes keeled, rather obtuse, not wholly 

 covering the seed, which is sharp-edged. 



Means of control 



Close cutting or pulling before the first flowers mature. 



SMOOTH PIGWEED 

 Chenopodium album, L. 



Other English names: White Goosefoot, Lamb's Quarters, Fat Hen, 



Mealweed, Meldweed. 



Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 

 Time of bloom: June to September. 

 Seed-time: August to November. 

 Range: Throughout the world. 

 Habitat: Cultivated fields, gardens, waste places. 



A succulent, swift-growing weed, which rapidly absorbs the food 

 and moisture needed by the crops among which it intrudes. Pigs 

 and sheep are very fond of it, and when young it makes quite as 



