Leaf blades triangular, broadly ovate, or elliptic, nearly as broad as long, thick, margins entire or with pair of basal teeth or lobes, farinose. Inflorescences glomerules on compound spikes or panicles. Seeds with margins rounded or acute; seed coat smooth.

Distribution

North America.

Discussion

Species 7 (6 in the flora).

Selected References

Walters, T. W. 1988. Relationships between isozymic and morphologic variation in the diploids Chenopodium fremontii, C. neomexicanum, C. palmeri, and C. watsonii. Amer. J. Bot. 75: 97–105.

Lower Taxa

Chenopodium albescens, Chenopodium fremontii, Chenopodium incanum, Chenopodium nevadense