See text Download high resolution version (540x744, 22 KB)Chenopodium album1. ... Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families See text The Caryophyllales are an order of dicotyledons. ... Genera See text The family Amaranthaceae, the Amaranth family, is a taxon of dicotyledon flowering plants included among the Caryophyllales and containing about 65 genera and 900 species. ...
Chenopodium is a genus of plant in the family Amaranthaceae, known generically as the Goosefoots. It contains several plants of minor to moderate importance as foods, both leaf vegetables and pseudo-cereals. Members include Quinoa and Lambsquarter. Genera See text The family Amaranthaceae, the Amaranth family, is a taxon of dicotyledon flowering plants included among the Caryophyllales and containing about 65 genera and 900 species. ... Food from plant sources Food is any substance normally eaten or drunk by living organisms. ... Leaf vegetables, also called greens or leafy greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots. ... Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a grain, technically a caryopsis). ... Binomial name Chenopodium quinoa Willd. ... Binomial name Chenopodium album Lambsquarter, Lambs-quarters, (Brit. ...
Goosefoot can be traced back as far as AD 300 and was particularly revered during the Anglo-Saxon period where it was eaten like spinach.
As mentioned goosefoot can be cooked in the same way as spinach, it can be blanched in boiling water, sautéed in butter or added last minute to a soup such as minestrone verde.
Goosefoot produces highly nutritious seeds, which are a close relative of the American quinoa grain.
goosefoot common name for the genus Chenopodium, as well as for the goosefoot family, Chenopodiaceae, a family of widely distributed shrubs and herbs that includes the beet, spinach, and mangel-wurzel.
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