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  • COMMON NAME: Epazote, Jesuits tea, Mexican tea, Paico, wormseed.
  • ARABIC: شوله
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Chenopodium ambrosioides L.
  • SYNONYMS: Chenopodium integrifolium, Chenopodium opulifolium, Chenopodium suffruticosum, Teloxys ambrosioides.
  • FAMILY: CHENOPODIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual Biennial
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/dysphania_ambrosioides.htm
Erect, annual or biennial. 30-90 cm high. Stems simple or branching, glandular-pubescent. Leaves 2-8 cm long and 0.5-4 cm wide, oblong or elliptic-oblong, apex acute or obtuse, margin sinuate-toothed, upper smaller leaves almost entire, all lower surface with yellowish glands. Flowers bisexual and unisexual in cluster, spicately arranged in the axils of the upper most leafy panicle. Perianth 4-5 parts, 0.1-1.5 mm. long, free nearly to base, enclosing the utricle. Stamens 4-5, exerted, filaments linear. Stigma 3-5. Seeds horizontal, small, orbicular, glossy, black. Flowering from February to May.
A weed in the fields and roadsides.
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