Family |
Amaranthaceae
Chenopodium album
L.
Chenopodium album L.
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 1, Pl. CXXXVI nº 3; 1966)
Life-form & habit: Erect, branched annual herb, 30–80 cm tall; stem striated and farinose (mealy).
Leaves: Alternate, long-petiolate; lower leaves rhomboid-oblong or oblong-linear, hastate to trilobed, coarsely dentate; upper leaves linear, entire.
Inflorescence & flowers: Flowers densely clustered in large spike-like racemes.
Calyx: Sepals keeled, acute, enclosing the fruit.
Fruit: Shiny seed, slightly punctate with a somewhat sharp margin.
Phenology: Flowers almost year-round.
Habitat & elevation: Gardens, vacant lots, and disturbed ground.
Lebanese distribution: Ct. Beirut, Batroun, Tripoli; Mm. Ehden, Bân, Dimane, base of Jabal Kneissé, Hadeth; Met. Haouch Mou‘allaqa.
Syrian distribution: Dam. Environs of Damascus, Nachabiyé.
Native range: Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Central European Russia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Connecticut, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, District of Columbia, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Florida, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf States, Hainan, Hungary, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Louisiana, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Manchuria, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Mongolia, Morocco, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South Carolina, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tennessee, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Türkey, Türkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Virginia, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Yemen. (KEW)
Introduced into: Alaska, Alberta, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Bahamas, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, California, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, Colorado, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Eswatini, Finland, Free State, Føroyar, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hawaii, Iceland, Idaho, Iowa, Jawa, Kansas, Kenya, Kermadec Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Labrador, Lesotho, Manitoba, Marianas, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Mozambique, Namibia, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Northwest Territories, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Prince Edward I., Queensland, Québec, Saskatchewan, Seychelles, South Australia, South Dakota, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tasmania, Texas, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon, Zambia, Zimbabwe. (KEW)