Chenopodium album

Aksirken

Annual, 20-150 cm. Leaves 2-8 x 1-5 cm, rhombic, deltoid or ovate-lanceolate, entire or denticulate, the lower often 3-lobed, mealy beneath. Flowers in glomeruli arranged in terminal or axillary spikes, racemes or cymes. Perianth segments .with a rounded keel on the back. Pericarp free. Seed obtuse on the margins, nearly smooth with shallow, nidial furrows.

1- Leaves broadly rhomboid-deltoid, broadly cuneate at the base, rounded at apex, with mostly rounded teeth subsp. iranicum

1- Leaves rhomboid-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, narrowly cuneate at the base, acute at apex, mostly sharply dentate subsp. album

   2. Plants mostly stout, green; leaves ovate-lanceolate, mostly irregularly dentate, the lower teeth longest, irregular towards the apex var. album

   2. Plant usually slender, often with a red-striped stem; leaves ovate-rhomboid, often red-margined, regularly dentate, gradually attenuate towards the apex var. microphyllum