Chenopodium album: Difference between revisions
Chenopodium album
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Its native range is obscure due to extensive cultivation, but includes most of [[Europe]], from where [[Carl Linnaeus]] described the species in 1753. Plants native to eastern Asia are included under ''C. album'', but often differ from European specimens. According to ''[[Plants of the World Online]]'', the species' natural distribution includes temperate Eurasia from western Europe to China and the Russian Far East, the Indian subcontinent, North Africa, Ethiopia, and the eastern and central United States. | Its native range is obscure due to extensive cultivation, but includes most of [[Europe]], from where [[Carl Linnaeus]] described the species in 1753. Plants native to eastern Asia are included under ''C. album'', but often differ from European specimens. According to ''[[Plants of the World Online]]'', the species' natural distribution includes temperate Eurasia from western Europe to China and the Russian Far East, the Indian subcontinent, North Africa, Ethiopia, and the eastern and central United States. | ||
It is widely naturalized elsewhere, such as in [[Africa]], [[Australasia]], North America, | It is widely naturalized elsewhere, such as in [[Africa]], [[Australasia]], North America, and [[Oceania]], and now occurs almost everywhere (except [[Antarctica]]) in soils rich in [[nitrogen]], especially on wasteland. | ||
== Cultivation == | == Cultivation == | ||