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 
Chenopédium dlbum, 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. 
Habitut: 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 
