Family: Amaranthaceae
Fat-hen Chenopodium album Flowering time: July-October. Annual. Native Very common on rich, nitrogenous ground in gardens and on 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
Kingston Lacy, Dorset. July 2020