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Chenopodium pallescens Standl.
N. Amer. Fl. 21: 15. 1916.

Etymology	From the latin "pallidus": pale, for the grayish color of the leaves
Description:	Erect annual, 3-6 dm. high, much branched throughout, the branches subdichotomous, stout, spreading or ascending, obtusely angled, striate, pale-green, glabrate or sparsely and finely farinose; petioles 2-5 mm. long; leaf-blades linear, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, 1.5-3 mm. wide, 1-nerved, obtuse or acutish, attenuate at the base, entire, thick, pale-green, glabrous or very sparsely and closely farinose, the upper blades shorter and narrower; flowers in rather large glomerules, these in short, interrupted, broadly paniculate or cymose-paniculate spikes, the inflorescence sparsely leafy; calyx slightly farinose, deeply cleft, the lobes rounded-ovate, fleshy, green, carinate, completely enclosing the fruit; pericarp adherent, finely tuberculate; seed horizontal, 1.5 mm. broad, nearly smooth, black, shining, the margin rounded. - Standley
Distribution:	USA: IL, IN, MO, NM, OH, OK
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Type:	Earle & Earle 326: US 382478
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