Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, ACT

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Canberra, ACT

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, south of Ulladulla, NSW

Plant.  Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Canberra, ACT

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, south of Ulladulla, NSW

Common Name

Fat Hen; White Goosefoot; Blue Weed

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb to 2.5m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 3-10cm long, flat, both surfaces with mealy scales.  Leaf edges entire, toothed, or incised.  Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), green or greyish, in small clusters forming leafy or leafless panicles. 

Description (page 258) and photo of fruiting bodies (page 259) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Chenopodium~album