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  • COMMON NAME: white goosefoot
  • ARABIC: شوله
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Chenopodium album L.
  • SYNONYMS: Anserina candidans, Atriplex alba, Atriplex viridis, Blitum viride.
  • FAMILY: CHENOPODIACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
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.floraofqatar.com/chenopodium_album.htm M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
used to be cultivated as edible plant, contains vitamin C, seeds very nutritious.
Annual gray or mealy herb 25-70 cm high. Stems erect, branched, ending in panicle. Basal leaves 1-6 cm long and 0.5-3 cm wide, simple, petiole, ovate-elliptic, subentire, upper oblong to linear, all leaves with mealy under-surface. Flowers perfect in clusters forming a compact inflorescence. Perianth 5, keeled, hooded, scarious-margined, enclosing fruit. Seeds 0.1-0.15 cm in diameter, lenticular, smooth, glossy. Flowering from February to May.
Gardens, fields or roadsides.
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