Chenopodium album

• Botanical Name : Chenopodium album L.
• Synonyms : Atriplex alba (L.) Crantz
• Common Name : Cheel-ni-bhaji, Goose Foot, Pigweed
• Plant Family : Chenopodiaceae
• Plant Form : Herb
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Ayurvedic Udyan, Van Chetana Kendra, Basan

About Chenopodium album Plant :

• Habit : A small annual herb.
• Stem : Aerial, erect, herbaceous, branched, solid, pubescent and green, some portion may be red also.
• Leaves : Simple, alternate, variable, oblong, rhombic, deltoid, lanceolate acute or obtuse, entire, toothed.
• Inflorescence : Spike
• Flowers :
  • Greenish white in paniculate spikes, bracteates, complete, regular, pentamerous, hypogynous. Perianth of 5 tepals, oblong-lanceolate, keeled, concave, incurved.
  • Stamens 5 or few, free, filament long, dithecous, basifixed, introrse.
  • Ovarybicarpellary, fused, superior,unilocular, with one basal ovule, ovary depressed-globose, membranous, enclosed by sepals.
• Fruit : Utricle
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : January-April         
• Significance :
  • Tender leaves are eaten as vegetable (bhaji) and fodder.
  • It is also very useful in urinary troubles.