Ontario Weeds: Maple-leaved goosefoot
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Name: Maple-leaved goosefoot, Chenopodium
gigantospermum Aellen
Other Names: CHEHQ, chénopode
hybride, ansérine a feuilles d'érable, C. hybridum
L.
Family: Goosefoot Family (Chenopodiaceae)
General Description: Resembling Lamb's-quarters
but distinguished by its softer and thinner, bright green to yellowish-green
leaves having 2 or 3 broad, deep, rather sharp-pointed lobes on
each side, thus resembling maple leaves in general outline, and
by its inflorescence being much larger and open, with the individual,
small flowers usually well separated from each other.
Habitat: Maple-leaved goosefoot occurs throughout southern Ontario in gardens, waste areas, roadsides, and occasionally along the edges of fields.
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