Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia
Lamb's-Quarters
(Chenopodium album)
one of many similar ''goosefoot" species this heavily
branched annual varies from 0.3 to over 2 metres in height; ridged
green stems are often striped with purple; leaves are somewhat
triangular in shape, greyish-green underneath and covered with
mealy particles ; the greenish inconspicuous flowers are crowded
in leaf axils or at end of stems
one of the most common agricultural weeds
Seedling showing grey mealy particles
Inconspicuous flowers crowded in leaf axils or at end of stems
