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
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.
Leicestershire & Rutland Map
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