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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : chegl

Scientific name: Chenopodium glaucum L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Chenopodiaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: oak-leaved goosefoot

Synonym(s) of Common name:glaucous goosefoot

Name per country: DE : Graugrüner Gänsefuß ; ES : cenizo glauco ; FR : chénopode glauque ; IT : farinello glauco ; PT : farinhosa ; EN : oak-leaved goosefoot ; NL : zeegroene ganzevoet ; DK : blagron gasefod

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical to spatulate, stalked leaves entire oval to narrowly rhombic irregular dentate.

Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10 to 50 cm.

- Stem: erect or ascendent, often branched at base.

- Leaves: Lower leaves opposite, following ones alternate. Green above, pale glaucous (mealy) beneath. Middle ones 2 times longer than wide, dentate, mostly obtuse. Upper leaves less than 6 times longer than wide, in general not tapered, little dentate sometimes almost entire sepals not covering, black and "shiny" seeds can be seen at the tip of the ripe fruit.

- Halophytic plant, palatable for cattle.

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Chenopodium album

Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Rare     Germany  Rare     Denmark  Rare     Spain  Rare     France  Rare     Italy  Rare    

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