Dysphania atriplicifolia(Spreng.) G. Kadereit, Sukhor. & Uotila

winged pigweed

WFO wfo-1000081131 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dysphania atriplicifolia, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. a Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-27 / obs. 160201332
Dysphania atriplicifolia, photographed by Craig Martin
fig. b Craig Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 151323910
Dysphania atriplicifolia, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. c Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 150590911
Dysphania atriplicifolia, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. d Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 150591799
Dysphania atriplicifolia, photographed by Shaan Aroeste
fig. e Shaan Aroeste, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148733141
Dysphania atriplicifolia, photographed by Bonnie Semmling
fig. f Bonnie Semmling, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141336172
Dysphania atriplicifolia, photographed by Shawn Severance
fig. g Shawn Severance, CC0 1.0 / obs. 100588875
Dysphania atriplicifolia, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. h Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92039033

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Where it actually grows measured, from 1,025 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -14.0 °C -6.4 °C 2.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.4 °C 27.2 °C 33.9 °C
Annual rainfall 389 mm 1,005 mm 1,222 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 35 mm 169 mm 264 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,025 research-grade observations of Dysphania atriplicifolia 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 11 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.

  • Amorea platyphylla (Michx.) Delile
  • Chenopodium atriplicifolium (Spreng.) A.Ludw. ex Graebn.
  • Chenopodium radiatum Schrad.
  • Cyclolepis platyphylla (Michx.) Moq.
  • Cycloloma atriplicifolium (Spreng.) Coult.
  • Cycloloma platyphylla (Michx.) Moq.
  • Cycloloma platyphyllum (Michx.) Moq.
  • Kochia atriplicifolia (Spreng.) Roth
  • Kochia platyphylla (Michx.) Schult.
  • Salsola atriplicifolia Spreng.
  • Salsola platyphylla Michx.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol CYAT. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

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. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.