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  • COMMON NAME: Nettle-leaved goosefoot, Sowhane.
  • ARABIC: أبو عفين، وريج
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Chenopodium murale L.
  • SYNONYMS: Chenopodium congestum
  • FAMILY: CHENOPODIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.kyffhauser.co.za/Plants1/Chenopodium_murale_var_murale/Image2.htm Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. https://www.floraofqatar.com/chenopodium_murale.htm Encyclopedia of medicinal plants of UAE 1&2 from Zayed complex for herbal Research & traditional medicine, AD. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Low to moderate salinity tolerance. The seeds are edible, and the shoots, stalks, and leaves can be eaten as greens. Forage herb grazed by animals. Diuretic, mild laxative, humectant, anthelmintic, sedative, liver tonic.

Annual, green herb 30-70 cm high. Stems erect or ascending, branching nearly at the base. Leaves alternate 1-6 cm long and 0.5-4 cm wide, petiolate, triangular or rhombic-ovate, acute, irregularly toothed, each teeth acute, glabrous. Inflorescences leafy, axillary and terminal, paniculate, or cymose. 

Flowering from February to May.
Fairly common weed of damp urban habitats, plantations, gardens, roadsides, fallow fields and oases throughout the UAE. Less in mountains.
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