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3rd Aug 2008, a copse, arable field, Wootton Dunnage, IOW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
It is a 'mealy' plant, with thick leaves growing to 1m high. |
3rd Aug 2008, a copse, arable field, Wootton Dunnage, IOW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
The leaves are mainly 3-lobed (with perhaps smaller lobes or waverings in-between) - and with the central lobe narrow and between 2 to 3 times as long as the lateral lobes. |
3rd Aug 2008, a copse, arable field, Wootton Dunnage, IOW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
3rd Aug 2008, a copse, arable field, Wootton Dunnage, IOW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
18th July 2019, Greenfield, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
18th July 2019, Greenfield, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
18th July 2019, Greenfield, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
18th July 2019, Greenfield, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
18th July 2019, Greenfield, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The tepals of the 'flowers' are only vaguely keeled on the underside.
The outer coat of the seed (if one can be seen here?) have deep conspicuous pits arranged in roughly radial rows and are also slightly elongated. The whole plant is covered in tiny paler flecks which look a bit like sand-grains on the surface of most, if not all, of the plant. |
Easily confused with : many other similar
It is an Archaeophyte and is found in arable fields and waste grounds and mainly seen in the Channel Islands, Southern and Eastern England and South Wales. Your Author hopes the specimen he came across in Greenfield, Lancashire is indeed of
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Chenopodium | ficifolium | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Amaranthaceae |
Chenopodium (Goosefoots) |
Goosefoot Family [Amaranthaceae] |