114 CHENOPODIACEAE (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY) 



a few inches high. Stubbles should be given surface cultivation 

 after harvest for the purpose of stirring into life such seeds as lie on 

 the ground, the young growth to be turned under at the fall plow- 

 ing, or, it may be grazed off by sheep. 



NETTLE-LEAVED GOOSEFOOT 

 Chenopodium murale, L. 



Other English names: Sowbane, Swine's Bane. 



Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom : June to September. 



Seed-time: August to November. 



Range: Maine to British Columbia, southward to Florida and 



Mexico. 

 Habitat : Cultivated grounds ; waste places. 



Stem ten to twenty inches high, leafy to the top, slender, often 

 decumbent, sometimes erect, usually loosely branched. Leaves 

 rhombic-ovate, thin, green on both sides, with large, coarse, wavy 

 but sharply pointed teeth, bases broadly wedge-shaped, truncate, 

 or slightly rounded, with petioles shorter than the blades. Panicles 

 in small, branching, divergent, somewhat corymbose clusters, 

 axillary, and shorter than the leaves ; calyx-lobes not wholly 

 enclosing the seed, which is sharp-edged and very flat. 



Means of control the same as for Smooth Pigweed. 



SPREADING ORACHE 

 Atriplex pdtula, L. 



Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom: Late July to October. 



Seed-time: September to November. 



Range : Nova Scotia and Ontario to New Jersey and Ohio ; also 



in northwestern United States and British Columbia, where it is 



probably native. 

 Habitat : Sandy soil ; cultivated ground, waste places. 



A relative of the Smooth Pigweed and ranking with it in weedy 

 character. Stem one to three feet in length, prostrate or ascending 

 or sometimes erect, diffusely branching, grooved, often with reddish 

 stripes. Leaves lance-shaped, one to five inches in length, long- 



