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|accepted_name=Chenopodium ficifolium
|accepted_authority=Smith
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Brit.
|place=1: 276. 1800
|year=1800
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Chenopodium;Chenopodium subg. Chenopodium;Chenopodium sect. Chenopodium;Chenopodium subsect. Favosa;Chenopodium ficifolium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chenopodium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Chenopodium subg. Chenopodium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Chenopodium sect. Chenopodium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subsection</small>[[Chenopodium subsect. Favosa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chenopodium ficifolium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 294
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>erect, simple, 1.8–5.5 dm, glabrous to sparsely farinose. <b>Leaves</b> nonaromatic; petiole 0.3–4.5 cm, usually shorter than leaves; blade distinctly 3-lobed, narrowly ovate to elongate, (1.4–)2.7–6.2 × (0.5–)1.2–2.5 cm, base cuneate, margins toothed or nearly entire, with pair of basal lobes, apex obtuse to subacute, sparsely farinose. <b>Inflorescences</b> glomerules in terminal and lateral spikes and panicles, 11 cm; glomerules irregularly globose, in different stages of development, 1.7–1.9 mm diam.; bracts absent or leaflike. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth segments 5, connate at base into 0.3 mm tube; lobes ovate, 0.5–0.9 × 0.5–0.8 mm, apex acute, farinose, keeled, covering fruit at maturity; stamens 5; stigmas 2, 0.3 mm. <b>Utricles</b> depressed-ovoid; pericarp nonadherent, smooth. <b>Seeds</b> lenticular, 0.9–1 mm diam.; seed coat black, honeycomb-pitted. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early summer–fall.
|habitat=Disturbed nitrogen-rich habitats
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Que.;Fla.;Mo.;Oreg.;Pa.;native s;se Asia;occasionally introduced in other parts of the world.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Chenopodium ficifolium</i> has often been called C. serotinum Linnaeus. P. Aellen (1929b) and P. Uotila (1979b) have shown that the type of C. serotinum is a sterile <i>Atriplex</i> specimen (most probably <i>A. tatarica</i> Linnaeus) based on its Kranz-type leaf structure. <i>Chenopodium</i> blomianum Aellen [= <i>C. ficifolium</i> subsp. blomianum (Aellen) Aellen] was described from Sweden based on alien plants of presumably East Asian origin (P. Aellen 1928). According to Aellen, that subspecies occurs in southern and southeastern Asia and differs from <i>C. ficifolium</i> subsp. ficifolium in having leaves with spreading basal lobes almost perpendicular to the central lobe and seeds with shallow elongate depressions. All North American plants of <i>C. ficifolium</i> belong to subsp. ficifolium. In Europe <i>C. ficifolium</i> occasionally hybridizes with other species, including <i>C. album</i> (producing C. ×zahnii Murr) and C. suecicum (producing C. ×gruellii Aellen). No study has been made of such hybrids in North America.</p>
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name=Chenopodium ficifolium
|authority=Smith
|rank=species
|parent rank=subsection
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early summer–fall.
|habitat=Disturbed nitrogen-rich habitats
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Que.;Fla.;Mo.;Oreg.;Pa.;native s;se Asia;occasionally introduced in other parts of the world.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Brit.
|publication year=1800
|special status=
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|genus=Chenopodium
|subgenus=Chenopodium subg. Chenopodium
|section=Chenopodium sect. Chenopodium
|subsection=Chenopodium subsect. Favosa
|species=Chenopodium ficifolium
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