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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

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