Seasonal Wild Flowers

Many-seeded Goosefoot

Chenopodium polyspermum

All-seed

Chenopodiaceae

July to September

It is found throughout the country except for parts of the

North.

See the BSBI distribution map for Many-seeded Goosefoot

It is an archeophyte which grows on light, nutrient-rich

waste ground and disturbed cultivated land.

Many-seeded Goosefoot is an annual erect or sprawling

herb, growing up to 1m.

The flowers are in loose spikes in the axils of leaves.

The flowering spikes are shorter than the leaves.

Leaves are elliptical to ovate with no teeth or lobes

(unlike other Goosefoots or Oraches).

Stems are 4-angled and red.

Many-seeded Goosefoot on a

farm dump, Suffolk

Flower spike

Prostrate stems

Entire leaf

4-angled, red stems