Photo: Chenopodium album 00.

Photo: Chenopodium album.

Flowering plant. Edible, good potherb when young. BGBM, Berlin, Germany. Wild. 1995-06-01.


Chenopodium album L.
Engl.: fat hen, allgood, baconweed, common pigweed, dirtweed, dirty dick, frost blite, lamb's quarters, midden myles, mutton tops, pigweed, white goosefoot.
Deu.: Weisser Gänsefuss, Gänsefuss.
Suom.: jauhosavikka, saviheinä.
Sven.: svinmålla, mjölmålla, vitmålla.
Bot. syn.: Chenopodium amaranticolor Coste & Reyn, Chenopodium centrorubrum Nakai, Chenopodium giganteum D. Don, Chenopodium lanceolatum Muhl. ex Willd., Chenopodium missouriense Aellen, Chenopodium reticulatum Aellen, Chenopodium suecicum J. Murr.