Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Chenopodium murale
Common name
Nettle-leaf goosefoot, Green fat-hen, Sowbane
Family
Chenopodiaceae
Where found
Pastures, disturbed sites, and waste places. Widespread, mainly Sydney area.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 1.5 m tall. Stems angular, often grooved. Leaves often with an unpleasant odour when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 1-8 cm long, 5-50 mm wide, hairless, scurfy when young, margins coarsely toothed or shallowly lobed, tips pointed. Flowers bisexual and/or female, green turning red, 1–1.5 mm in diameter, with 5 'petals' fused near the base, in branched clusters. Flowers mostly Sep.–May.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Chenopodium~murale (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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