Chenopodium acuminatumWilld.

WFO wfo-0000600883 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Chenopodium acuminatum, photographed by 葉子
fig. a 葉子, CC0 1.0 / 2022-03-31 / obs. 196987925
Chenopodium acuminatum, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196992851
Chenopodium acuminatum, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190617491
Chenopodium acuminatum, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190615645
Chenopodium acuminatum, photographed by 葉子
fig. e 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190243826
Chenopodium acuminatum, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190232022
Chenopodium acuminatum, photographed by Heng Chian Li
fig. g Heng Chian Li, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204002327
Chenopodium acuminatum, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 176893306

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
4414278
Filed as
Chenopodium acuminatum Willd.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Chenopodium acuminatum is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Nansei-shoto, Primorye, Qinghai, Taiwan, Turkmenistan, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Philippines, South China Sea, Vietnam, East European Russia AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina SoutheastChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKazakhstanKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeQinghaiTaiwanTurkmenistanTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangPhilippinesVietnamEast European Russia KoreaNansei-shotoSouth China Sea
Native distribution of Chenopodium acuminatum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China Southeast CHS
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kazakhstan KAZ
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Nansei-shoto NNS
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Taiwan TAI
Turkmenistan TKM
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Philippines PHI ASIA-TROPICAL
South China Sea SCS
Vietnam VIE
East European Russia RUE EUROPE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 819 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -26.6 °C 14.1 °C 17.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.1 °C 28.6 °C 30.6 °C
Annual rainfall 169 mm 1,556 mm 3,149 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 7 mm 73 mm 617 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 819 research-grade observations of Chenopodium acuminatum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Agathophytum acuminatum Schur
  • Chenopodium acuminatum subsp. acuminatum
  • Chenopodium acuminatum subsp. virgatum (Thunb.) Kitam.
  • Chenopodium acuminatum var. japonicum Franch. & Sav.
  • Chenopodium acuminatum var. minimum (W.Wang & P.Y.Fu) Z.S.Qin
  • Chenopodium acuminatum var. ovatum Fenzl
  • Chenopodium acuminatum var. vachellii (Hook. & Arn.) Moq.
  • Chenopodium acutifolium Hook. & Arn.
  • Chenopodium album subsp. virgatum (Thunb.) C.H.Blom
  • Chenopodium album var. acuminatum (Willd.) Kuntze
  • Chenopodium vachellii Hook. & Arn.
  • Chenopodium virgatum Thunb.
  • Chenopodium virgatum var. minimum (W.Wang & P.Y.Fu) Kitag.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.