Goosefoots, genus Chenopodium
Fat Hen (Chenopodium album)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Caryophyllales Family: Amaranthaceae Genus: Chenopodium
species
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Chenopodium is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants, known generically as the Goosefoots. It contains several plants of minor to moderate importance as food crops, both leaf vegetables and pseudo-cereals, including Quinoa, Kañiwa, Fat Hen, Good King Henry, and Epazote. Goosefoots are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species; see list of Lepidoptera which feed on Chenopodium.

In the APG II system (2003) it is placed in the family Amaranthaceae, but earlier, for example in the Cronquist system (1981), it was placed in the family Chenopodiaceae.

Selected species

• Chenopodium album (Lamb's quarters, Fat hen)
• Chenopodium ambrosoides (Epazote)
• Chenopodium berlandieri (Pitseed Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium bonus-henricus (Good King Henry)
• Chenopodium botrys (Jerusalem Oak Goosefoot, Feathered Geranium)
• Chenopodium capitatum (Strawberry-blite)
• Chenopodium chenopodioides (Small Red Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium ficifolium (Fig-leaved Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium foliosum
• Chenopodium giganteum
• Chenopodium glaucum (Oak-leaved Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium hybridum (Maple-leaved Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium murale (Nettle-leaved Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium opulifolium (Grey Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium pallidicaule (Kañiwa)
• Chenopodium polyspermum (Many-seeded Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium purpurascens (Purple Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium quinoa (Quinoa)
• Chenopodium rubrum (Red Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium suecicum (Green Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium urbicum (Upright Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium vulvaria (Stinking Goosefoot, Notch-weed)

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