Family: Chenopodiaceae Chenopodium album     *     Fat-hen Flowering time: July-October. Annual Habitat: Very common on rich, nitrogenous ground in gardens, arable and waste ground. A very variable plant with whitish or whitish-pink clusters of flowers. The whole plant is +/- greyish mealy with angular stems and greyish-green leaves, diamond-lanceolate shaped, lobed, entire or blunt-toothed. Similar: Common Orache, Atriplex patula. Triangular fruit bracteoles

Fat-hen, Chenopodium album
Holton Lee, Dorset. October 2012