Chenopodium vulvaria L.
Sp. PL 220.1753
Etymology |
From the Latin: vulva meaning "external female genitalia" |
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Ill-scented annual, much branched from the base and often throughout, the branches ascending, 1.5-4 dm. long, slender or stout, copiously farinose; petioles half as long as the blades or longer, often equaling them; leaf-blades rhombic-ovate to ovate-orbicular, 1-3.5 cm. long and as wide, rounded to acutish at the apex, mostly rounded at the base, entire, thick, copiously farinose beneath, often glabrate on the upper surface; flowers in small glomerules, these in slender or stout, usually dense, paniculate spikes, the inflorescence little branched, usually leafy; calyx densely farinose, the lobes obtuse, rounded on the back, completely enclosing the fruit; pericarp adherent; seed horizontal, depressed-globose, dull, slightly puncticulate, black, 1 mm. broad, the margin rounded. - Standley |
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USA: AL, CA, MD, NJ, NM, PA |
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CDA 3107 L. Brown 7-21-1961 |
CDA 3108 J. Detor 823-58 |
G-DC 341-14 |
GH Metcalfe 7-27-1903 |
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GH Parker 7-27-1879 |
MO 5426834 Reed 32684 |
NY Adison Brown July 1880 |
NY Curtis 6866 |
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| NY Howell-True 47694 |
RENO 25337 J. Alexander 1885 |