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Chenopodium berlandieri Moq.

Pitseed goosefoot (en), Chénopode de Berlandier (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Amaranthaceae > Chenopodium

Characteristics

Much like C. album, but the pericarp evidently roughened and cellular-reticulate when viewed at 10× (or in any case at 20×); a minute (0.1 mm) undivided style-base persistent on the fr (at least in var. zschackei); 2n=36. Common native Amer. weed, widespread in our range and s. into Mex. Three ± distinguishable vars. with us:
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A herb. It is upright and can be 3 m tall. The leaves have teeth along the edge and the lower leaves have lobed. The seeds have a honey comb pitted surface. There are some named cultivated varieties.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination anemogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.2
Root system tap-root
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Open soil. Mud-flats at elevations of 10-200 metres in Texas and Mexico. Occasional as a weed in cultivated ground, in streets, on sandbars, or along roadsides, at elevations of 1,300-2,200 metres in Guatemala.
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Open soil. Mud-flats at elevations of 10-200 metres in Texas and Mexico. Occasional as a weed in cultivated ground, in streets, on sandbars, or along roadsides, at elevations of 1,300-2,200 metres in Guatemala.
It is a temperate and subtropicalplant. Temperatures need to be above 10°C. It needs full sunlight and good soil.
Light 5-9
Soil humidity 4-7
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-8

Usage

The leaves are eaten. They are fried in butter with onion. Young leaves can be used in salads. The seed heads are eaten. The seeds are used for meal for bread or porridge.
Uses cooking dye food gene source leaf vegetable medicinal
Edible leaves saps seeds shoots
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

It is grown from seed. Seedlings can be transplanted.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -29
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Chenopodium berlandieri unspecified picture

Distribution

Chenopodium berlandieri world distribution map, present in Brazil, Mexico, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:56042-2
WFO ID wfo-0000601061
COL ID TX9W
BDTFX ID 76143
INPN ID 159602
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Chenopodium berlandieri f. ficifoliforme Chenopodium berlandieri Botrys berlandieri Chenopodium texanum Chenopodium album var. berlandieri Chenopodium berlandieri var. coloradense Chenopodium berlandieri subsp. esauae Chenopodium berlandieri var. foetens Chenopodium berlandieri subsp. ludwigianum Chenopodium berlandieri subsp. nuttalliae Chenopodium berlandieri var. opulifoliforme Chenopodium berlandieri subsp. pseudopetiolare Chenopodium berlandieri subsp. yucatanum Chenopodium berlandieri f. angustius Chenopodium berlandieri f. grossidentatum Chenopodium berlandieri f. latifolium Chenopodium berlandieri f. sinuatum Chenopodium berlandieri f. subhastatum Chenopodium berlandieri var. berlandieri

Lower taxons

Chenopodium berlandieri var. boscianum Chenopodium berlandieri var. bushianum Chenopodium berlandieri var. macrocalycium Chenopodium berlandieri var. sinuatum Chenopodium berlandieri var. zschackei
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