Common Lambsquarters

(Chenopodium album)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habit: Erect annual herb

Root anatomy:  Fibrous roots from short-branched taproot; red in color

Leaf anatomy: Alternate, deltoid, simple, margins dentate to entire, light green, grainy gray powder on leaf bottoms smooth, long petiole

Reproduction: Clusters in dense paniculate spikes

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}