110 CHENOPODIACEAE (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY) 
JERUSALEM OAK 
Chenopodium Botrys, L. 
Other English names: Feather Geranium, Turnpike Geranium. 
Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: July to September. 
Seed-time: August to October. 
Range: Nova Scotia to Oregon, southward to Georgia and Mexico. 
Habitat: Roadsides and waste places. 
Its name of Turnpike Geranium indicates the fondness of this 
weed for the public road, where it is usually an unsightly object, 
with its glandular, hairy leaves and flowers overlaid with dust. It 
is strong-scented, with an odor somewhat like turpentine, and 
grazing animals, even sheep, usually leave it alone. 
Stem eight inches to two feet tall, slender, erect, simple or with 
very few branches, green, glandular-hairy, and viscid. Leaves ob- 
long, pinnately lobed, obtuse at apex, the lobes also obtuse with 
crenate teeth; petioles slender, short, the upper leaves becoming 
sessile. Flowers in spreading, cyme-like racemes, small, green, 
viscid, very numerous; calyx-lobes pointed, hairy, not quite cover- 
ing the small, flattened seed. 
Means of control should be the same as for the Wormseeds. 
STRAWBERRY BLITE 
Chenopodium capitatum, Asch. 
Other English names: Blite Mulberry, Strawberry Spinach. 
Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: June to August. 
Seed-time: July to September. 
Range: Nova Scotia to Alaska, southward to New Jersey, Illinois, 
and Minnesota, and in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado, Utah, 
and Nevada. Also a native of Europe. 
Habitat: Dry soil; cultivated grounds; waste places. 
Stem six inches to two feet high, slender, pale green, often striped 
with purple, with numerous ascending branches. Leaves trian- 
gular or halberd-shaped, one to three inches long, thin, pale green, 
irregularly and coarsely toothed, not mealy; petioles slender, the 
lower ones about as long as the blades. Flowers in rounded, 
