Chenopodium album – Lambs Quarters, Anserina-Branca

Description

Chenopodium album is a fast-growing annual plant in the genus Chenopodium. Though cultivated in some regions. Common names include lamb’s quarters, melde, goosefoot, wild spinach and fat-hen, though the latter two are also applied to other species of the genus Chenopodium, for which reason it is often distinguished as white goosefoot. Chenopodium album is extensively cultivated and consumed in Northern India as a food crop known as bathua.