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Chenopodiaceae
Goosefoot Family
Organic Seed
May 2004
Leaves of orach
Family characteristics
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Pollination-wind
Both dioecious and perfect
Seed type - cluster and multigerm
Seed maturity-indeterminate
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when 60-70% is mature then harvest
windrow and dry seed
Spinach
Spinacia oleracea L.
 Origin: Central Asia
 Dioecious, outcrossing, mainly wind
pollinated
 Importance: Next to cabbage, spinach is
the most important of the vegetables grown
for greens or pot herbs in the U.S.
 Season, seeding to harvest: 6 to 8 weeks.
 Use: As pot herbs; shipped fresh, canned,
frozen.
Teton
Avon Hybrid
Beet, Mangelwurzel, Sugar Beet,
Swiss Chard
Beta vulgaris
 Origin: Mediterranean,
from Greek times
 Biennial
 Outcrossing, perfect
flowers, protandrous
 Wind pollinated
Harvesting Mangels for feed (Beta
vulgaris vulgaris) at Steve’s farm
Mangels of up to 63 lbs were harvested at
Lulu Is. BC in 1900 (Stevenson Museum BC)
A mangel up close
Swiss chard
Beta vulgaris cicla
Orach, mountain spinach
Atriplex hortensis
Origin Mediterranean: Greeks used
Mariquita farm, Hollister CA
Lamb’s-quarters
Chenopodium album
 Weed
 Leaves can be eaten
 SW Native Amer.
Seed ground
 Monoecious- Male
and female flowers in
same plant
 Insect or wind
pollinated
Does this look familiar?
Good King Henry
Chenopodium
bonicus-henricus
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Also “fat hen plant”
In English Gardens
Perrenial, hardy
Outbreeding
Quinoa
Chenopodium
quinoa
Quinoa grain
Quinoa variability
Quinoa harvesting
Nestle interested
in large scale
production of quinoa
Epizote, boldo
Chenopodium ambrosiodes
 Weed in Latin America
 Used as tea for human
parasites
 Anti-nematode properties
Plants of Hawaii
Chenopodium berlandieri
 Used by Native
Americans, pre corn’s
arrival
Eastern US
Domesticated
four crops
1-2000 BC:
Squash
Chenopodium berlandieri
Sunflower
Marshelder
Amaranthaceae
Pigweeds
Amaranthus sp.
 A. retroflexus (redroot)
 Male and female
flowers on same plant
 Outcrossing, windpollinated
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Amaranthus
Amaranthus hypochondiacus
A. cruentus
Origin:
Andes