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Taxon:  Chenopodium album L.



Summary
Genus:
Chenopodium
Family:
Chenopodiaceae
Subfamily:
Chenopodioideae
Tribe:
Chenopodieae
Nomen number:
10178
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:219. 1753
Verified:
03/11/2004 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
8 (8  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Chenopodium album L. var. album (0 active accession[s])
Chenopodium album L. var. centrorubrum Makino (0 active accession[s])
Chenopodium album L. var. missouriense (Aellen) Bassett & Crompton (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Chenopodium album L. subsp. album

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Common names
English
fat-hen –
giant fat-hen –
lamb's-quarters –
white goosefoot –
Arabic
rukab al-gamal –
shawlah –
weraq –
English (Canada)
lamb’s-quarters –
French
ansérine blanche –
French (Canada)
chénopode blanc –
German
weißer Gänsefuß –
Japanese Rōmaji
iwa-akaza –
yamā-akaza –
Portuguese
anserina-branca –
Portuguese (Brazil)
ançarinha-branca –
erva-formigueira-branca –
falsa-erva-de-Santa-Maria –
Spanish
armuelle –
cenizo blanco –
Swedish
svinmålla –
Transcribed Chinese
li –
Distribution
Native
Africa
  • MACARONESIA: Portugal [Madeira Islands]
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
Asia-Temperate
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
  • CAUCASUS: Azerbaijan, Georgia
Europe
  • NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland
  • EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Croatia, Italy, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain, France, Portugal
Cultivated (also cult.)
Naturalized
Africa
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Saudi Arabia
  • CHINA: China
  • EASTERN ASIA: Korea, Japan
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan
  • PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia
  • NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand
Northern America
  • SUBARCTIC AMERICA: Canada [Northwest Territories, Yukon], United States [Alaska]
  • EASTERN CANADA: Canada [New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Québec]
  • WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nunavut, Saskatchewan]
  • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia]
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin]
  • NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
  • SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah]
  • REGION: Mexico
Pacific
  • NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
  • NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: United States [Guam]
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: New Caledonia
Southern America
  • CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica
  • BRAZIL: Brazil
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
  • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
Other (exact native range obscure)
Economic Uses


ILRI Germplasm Policy (excerpts)

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In accordance with this Agreement, all shipments of PGRFA of crops listed in Annex 1 to the Treaty (shipments of PGRFA under the Multilateral System) will be subject to the terms and conditions of the Standard Material Transfer Agreement (SMTA). In the event that the SMTA (attached) is used for the transfer of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture other than those listed in Annex 1 of the Treaty: i) The references in the SMTA to the "Multilateral System" shall not be interpreted as limiting the application of the SMTA to Annex 1 Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and in the case of Article 6.2 of the SMTA shall mean "under this Agreement". ii) The reference in Article 6.11 and Annex 3 of the SMTA to "Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture belonging to the same crop, as set out in Annex 1 to the Treaty" shall be taken to mean "Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture belonging to the same crop".

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