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Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : chehy

Scientific name: Chenopodium hybridum L.


Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Chenopodiaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: maple-leaved goosefoot

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Bastard-Gänsefuß, DE : Unechter Gänsefuß ; ES : cenizo híbrido ; FR : chénopode hybride ; IT : farinello ibrido ; PT : ; EN : maple-leaved goosefoot ; NL : bastaardganzevoet ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical, with rounded tip, more or less petiolate.

- Entire leaves, ovate to triangular, irregularly dentate.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 30-100 cm.

- Stem erect, simple or branched and 4-angled at base, then quickly striate.

- Opposed lower leaves, elsewhere alternate. Lower leaves in hastate shape, lamina triangular with narrow base, straight or slightly rounded cordate and terminated by 2 lateral teeth. Other leaves petiolate, alternate, dark green, slack and not farinose sinuate and dentate. Lamina long and triangular shape, cut down and in cordate at base terminated by long slender point, margin sinuate, 2-4 pointed, triangular teeth.

- Flower small, greenish, not entirely farinose, grouped in glomerules in panicles. Carinate sepal same size as the fruit.

- Plant with disagreeable smell.

- Biological type: annual.


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