Chenopodium L.

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Amaranthaceae

• Scientific Name

  Chenopodium L.

• Description

  Description - Annual or perennial herbs, with alternate petioled leaves. Flowers small, green, perfect, sessile, braetless, clustered. Calyx 2-5-parted or 2-5-lobed, embracing or enclosing the utricle, its segments or lobes often keeled or ridged. Stamens 1-5; filaments filiform or slender. Styles 2 or 3; seed horizontal or vertical, sometimes in both positions in different flowers of the same species: endosperm mealy; embryo completely or incompletely annular. [Greek, goosefoot, from the shape of the leaves.] About 60 species, mostly weeds, of wide geographic distribution. Type species: Chenopodium rubrum L.