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Common lambsquarters, an annual with succulent stems and leaves, grows from two to five feet tall.
Brigitte Mars: Lamsquarter: A Wild Spinach in Your Yard (VIDEO) 2010
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Common lambsquarters is primarily a self-pollinated plant.
Brigitte Mars: Lamsquarter: A Wild Spinach in Your Yard (VIDEO) 2010
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Seeds of lambsquarters can be dried and sprouted or ground into flour for bread, pancakes, muffins, cakes, cookies or gruel.
Brigitte Mars: Lamsquarter: A Wild Spinach in Your Yard (VIDEO) 2010
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Another variety is Chenopodium giganteum, magenta spreen, giant lambsquarters or quelites in Spanish.
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The weeds were lambsquarters and the only things the old homesteader and his wife had to eat during a period of severe drought many years prior.
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Common lambsquarters are low in protein percentages but high in many amino acids.
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Common lambsquarters, Chenopodium album, are a summer annual that grows to about 3 1/2 feet tall.
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Common lambsquarters are very high in Vitamin A, high in Vitamin C, moderate in calcium and low in iron.
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Epazote is a Mexican chenepodium closely related to goosefoot/lambsquarters.
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In addition, when used as part of a fall burndown program, it provides residual control of a number of small-seeded broadleaves and winter annual weeds including henbit, chickweed, pigweed, marestail, lambsquarters and waterhemp, according to product manufacturer FMC.
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