      
Taxon: Chenopodium album L.
Genus: Chenopodium
Family: Chenopodiaceae subfamily: Chenopodioideae tribe: Chenopodieae. Also placed in:
Amaranthaceae
Nomen number: 10178
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:219. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 11-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 11-Mar-2004
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions:
20 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- fat-hen (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- giant fat-hen (Source: Aust Pl Common Names
) – English
- lamb's-quarters (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- white goosefoot (Source: Websters Dict
) – English
- rukab al-gamal (Source: Weeds Egypt
. 1984) – Arabic
- shawlah (Source: Ill L Qatar
) – Arabic
- weraq (Source: Ill L Qatar
) – Arabic
- li (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- ansérine blanche (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- weißer Gänsefuß (Source: Zander ed17
) – German
- iwa-akaza (Source: F Japan
) – Japanese Rōmaji
- yamā-akaza (Source: F Japan
) – Japanese Rōmaji
- anserina-branca (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- ançarinha-branca (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- erva-formigueira-branca (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- falsa-erva-de-Santa-Maria (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- armuelle (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- cenizo blanco (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- svinmålla (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
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Native:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia
- EUROPE
Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Germany; Hungary; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
East Europe: Belarus; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Ukraine
Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy; Macedonia; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AFRICA
Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
South Tropical Africa: Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia
China: China
Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
Malesia: Papua New Guinea
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia
New Zealand: New Zealand
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nunavut, Saskatchewan
Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
Mexico
- PACIFIC
North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
Northwestern Pacific: Guam
Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Costa Rica
Brazil: Brazil
Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay
Cultivated:
Other: - exact native range obscure
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inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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