Lamb's Quarters
Scientific Name:Chenopodium album


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Lamb's Quarters
Genus species: Chenopodium album
Common Name: Lamb's Quarters
Family Name: Chenopodiaceae  
Annual to perennial herbs; leaves usually alternate, simple, sometimes succulent; flowers very small, bisexual or unisexual, regular, often congested in leaf axils or in spikes or panicles; fruit an achene, nutlet, or utricle.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Nonnative
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Green/Brown
Identified by:A. Swanson
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