Chenopodium albumL.

Common Lambsquarters

WFO wfo-0000600897 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Chenopodium album, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. a Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205968647
Chenopodium album, photographed by Ульяна Лалак
fig. b Ульяна Лалак, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205233177
Chenopodium album, photographed by Светлана Царахова
fig. c Светлана Царахова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205755000
Chenopodium album, photographed by Radosław Puchałka
fig. d Radosław Puchałka, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204693660
Chenopodium album, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. e Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204750441
Chenopodium album, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. f Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204190796
Chenopodium album, photographed by Jeff Clark
fig. g Jeff Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203696315

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Flowering n = 735 observations

Peak flowering in Aug, from 735 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 98 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.

  • Anserina candidans (Lam.) Montandon
  • Atriplex alba (L.) Crantz
  • Atriplex viridis (L.) Crantz
  • Blitum viride (L.) Moench
  • Botrys alba (L.) Nieuwl.
  • Botrys alba var. pauper Lunell
  • Botrys ferulata Lunell
  • Botrys pagana (Rchb.) Lunell
  • Chenopodium agreste E.H.L.Krause
  • Chenopodium album f. cymigerum (W.D.J.Koch) Aellen
  • Chenopodium album f. dubium Arlt & Jüttersonke
  • Chenopodium album f. glomerulosum (Rchb.) Aellen
  • Chenopodium album f. heterophyllum Wang-Wei & P.Y.Fu
  • Chenopodium album f. lanceolatum (Muhl. ex Willd.) Schinz & Thell.
  • Chenopodium album f. leiospermum Kuntze
  • Chenopodium album f. opuliforme Aellen
  • Chenopodium album f. ovalifolium Aellen
  • Chenopodium album f. paucidentatum Aellen
  • Chenopodium album f. pseudozschackei Aellen
  • Chenopodium album f. spicatum (W.D.J.Koch) Aellen
  • Chenopodium album subsp. bernburgense Murr
  • Chenopodium album subsp. collinsii Murr
  • Chenopodium album subsp. densifoliatum Ludw. & Aellen
  • Chenopodium album subsp. hastatum (C.Klinggr.) Graebn.

and 74 more.

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.

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