Taxon: Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants

Common names:

• ambrósia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• ambrósia-do-México   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• ambroisie du Mexique   (Source: Dict Rehm as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• American wormseed   (Source: Dict Rehm as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• anserina-vermífuga   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• anserina-vermifuga   (Source: Dict Rehm as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• apazote   (Source: F Guat as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• apozote   (Source: Dict Rehm as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• epazote   (Source: F Guat as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• ereva-mata-pulga   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• erva-das-lombrigas   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• erva-de-bicho   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• erva-de-Santa-Maria   (Source: Dict Rehm as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• erva-formigueira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• hierba hormiguera   (Source: Dict Rehm as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• Jerusalem-tea   (Source: Websters Dict as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• mastruço   (Source: Persp New Crops Uses as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• menstruço   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• Mexican-tea   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• mexikanischer Tee   (Source: Zander ed17 as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• paico   (Source: B. León, p.c. as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• pazote   (Source: Dict Rehm as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• quenopódio   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• Spanish-tea   (Source: Hortus 3 as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• wohlriechender Gänsefuß   (Source: Zander ed17 as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• wormseed   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• Wurmsamen   (Source: Dict Rehm as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide F Guat, as Chenopodium ambrosioides L.; Ency CNatIn, as Chenopodium ambrosioides L.)
  
• Harmful organism host: crop diseases; crop pests   (fide WorldWeeds 176. 1997, as Chenopodium ambrosioides L.)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (used in cosmetics fide Ency CNatIn, as Chenopodium ambrosioides L.)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency NatIn, as Chenopodium ambrosioides; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):194. 1999, as Chenopodium ambrosioides; CRC Med Herbs ed2, as Chenopodium ambrosioides; Herbs Commerce ed2, as Chenopodium ambrosioides)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (oil fide Kingsbury)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed, as Chenopodium ambrosioides L.)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Dysphania ambrosioides from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Baja Sur, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tamaulipas
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Queretaro, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Yucatan; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17) [= Chenopodium ambrosioides].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. (F Japan)
• Janick, J., ed. 1999. Perspectives on new crops and uses. (Persp New Crops Uses) [= Chenopodium ambrosioides].
• León, B. 2004. pers. comm. [re. Spanish (Peru) common names].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3) [= Chenopodium ambrosioides].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm) [= Chenopodium ambrosioides].
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat) [= Chenopodium ambrosioides].
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict) [= Chenopodium ambrosioides].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Dysphania ambrosioides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Dysphania ambrosioides. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Chenopodium ambrosioides L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 15 accessions)

Check other databases for Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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