Chenopodium acuminatum Willd.

Annual, erect or ascending, 20-30 cm high, branched or not; all young parts, especially under-surface of leaves, clothed with oblong, red or white vesicles; stems and branches angular; branches obliquely erect; their vesicles, except on the angles, subpersistent. Leaves entire, in sicco thickish, retaining their indumentum of vesicles during a long time especially on the undersurface where it is very dense, hence in sicco very pale beneath, often with a reddish margin and a reddish undersurface of nerves; lower leaves on rather long, reddish vesiculose petioles, ovate from a very obtuse or rounded-subtruncate, shortly contracted base and an obtuse or rounded, very shortly pointed apex, 2-4 by 1½-3 cm; higher leaves on shorter petioles, shorter, narrower, acute, distinctly and finely acuminate. Rachises of inflorescence densely clothed with reddish vesicles. Flower-clusters subglobose, small, dense, spicate, crowded or the lower rather distant; higher spikes united in a terminal, rather small leafless paniculate inflorescence. Flowers sessile, outside densely reddish-vesiculose. Tepals 5, broadly oval, obtuse or rounded, very concave thin, 1-nerved, 1½-1½ mm long, before and after anthesis connivent. Stamens 5, about equalling the perianth; anthers thick; ovary (in our specimens) minute. Style short, 2-armed. Fruit (not seen) finely wrinkled; seed dull black or shining.

It is a temperate and subtropical plant. It grows on wastelands, riverbanks, and field margins; It grows in Inner Mongolia.

The young stems and leaves are used as a vegetable.

Can be grown by seedlings.