Scientific name: Chenopodium album L.
Common name: Fat-hen
Description
Habit: A variably mealy annual, to 1 m high.
Stems: Erect or semi-erect, mealy, often partly reddish.
Leaves: Variable, lanceolate to rhombic, entire to shallowly toothed or lobed.
Flowers: Green, hermaphrodite, stalkless, in spikes or panicles; tepals 5; stamens 5.
Fruits: An achene, seeds black, surrounded by thin, translucent or silvery fruit wall, fruit enclosed by tepals.
Habitat: Cultivated ground, rarely on seashores or waste places.
Distribution: Local or rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No