Many-seeded Goosefoot - Chenopodium polyspermum
Alt Name
All Seed
Description
Short to tall erect to spreading plant with squarish ridged stems, leaves sometimes reddish, untoothed but occasionally with an angle on one or both sides. Flowers in long lax spikes, leafy, branched below
Identification difficulty
Habitat
Cultivated land, particularly amongst arable crops, waste places.
When to see it
July to October.
Life History
Annual.
UK Status
Found mainly in England north to the Humber, and in west Wales.
VC55 Status
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 83 of the 617 tetrads.
 Ditch in Field by Spa Drive Sapcote SP 4876 9385 (taken 31.7.2006).JPG)
Graham CalowSapcote31 July 2006
Graham CalowStoney Stanton16 July 2016
Graham CalowStoney Stanton09 September 2016
Graham CalowWitherley15 July 2015
Graham CalowBroughton Astley05 October 2014
David NichollsCounty Hall03 October 2011
 Ditch in Field by Spa Drive Sapcote SP 4876 9385 (taken 31.7.2006).JPG)
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Ron.stevensBroughton Astley03 July 2011
Graham CalowFosse Meadows, Sharnford10 July 2014
David NichollsCounty Hall03 October 2011
Graham CalowFosse Meadows, Sharnford10 July 2014
David NichollsFosse Meadows21 May 2014red edges to leaves
David NichollsCounty Hall03 October 2011
Alan SemperHarby field path G5025 September 2013
Graham CalowWitherley01 August 2015
Graham CalowWitherley15 July 2015
