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Chenopodium album (Fat hen)

Other names: Bacon weed, Common goosefoot, Dirtweed, Dirty Dick, Frost blite, Lamb's quarters, Muck weed, Mutton tops, Pigweed, Lambsquarters, White goosefoot, Baconweed

C. album is an upright then recumbent annual, typically considered a weed, with variable, triangular to spear-shaped, light green leaves, lance-shaped on the upper part of the stems, and panicles of green, inconspicuous flowers from summer into early autumn.
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0.5m max. spread

1.5m max. height

1-2 years to maturity

Chenopodium giganteum (Tree spinach)

Other names: Chenopodium amaranticolor , Chenopodium album amaranticolor, Magenta spreen , Giant lambsquarters

C. giganteum is an erect annual with red-flushed, green stems, ovate to diamond-shaped, toothed, edible, mid-green leaves, red-flushed when young and, in late summer, terminal spikes of insignificant, green, sometimes red-flushed flowers.
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0.5m max. spread

3m max. height

1-2 years to maturity