Chenopodium berlandieri
Moq.
Berlandier's goosefoot, Pit seed goosefoot
Chenopodium berlandieri is an annual herb that is native to California, and also found elsewhere in western North America.
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Jepson eFlora section:
eudicot
USDA PLANTS group:
Dicot
[Wikipedia] Culinary Uses: Although widely regarded as a weed, this species was once one of several plants cultivated by Native Americans in prehistoric North America as part of the Eastern Agricultural Complex. C. berlandieri was a domesticated pseudocereal crop, similar to the closely related quinoa C. quinoa.[4][5] It continues to be cultivated in Mexico as a pseudocereal, as a leaf vegetable, and for its broccoli-like flowering shoots. (link added by Mary Ann Machi)
