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§1 Plant

Chenopodium album L.

vernacular lambsquarters — species · Chenopodiaceae


USDA
CHAL7
GBIF
3083838
Rank
species
lambsquarters (Chenopodium album)
Platephotograph · no rights reservedCC0 · public domain source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Chenopodiaceae Vent.
Genus
Chenopodium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • GL Greenland Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 694 counties across 24 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 12 Both · 682 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 694 counties across 24 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 15 B
Alaska view state ↗ 12 I
Arizona view state ↗ 7 B
Arkansas view state ↗ 46 B
Delaware view state ↗ 2 B
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 B
Florida view state ↗ 31 B
Georgia view state ↗ 21 B
Kentucky view state ↗ 57 B
Louisiana view state ↗ 38 B
Maine view state ↗ 16 B
Maryland view state ↗ 1 B
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 B
Mississippi view state ↗ 12 B
Montana view state ↗ 51 B
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 B
New Jersey view state ↗ 19 B
New York view state ↗ 48 B
North Carolina view state ↗ 69 B
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 67 B
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 B
Vermont view state ↗ 12 B
Virginia view state ↗ 100 B
West Virginia view state ↗ 41 B

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CHAL7 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3083838 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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