The drug plants of Illinois drugplantsofilli44teho Year: 1951 GHENOPODIUM ALBUM L. Lamb's quarters, pigweed. Chenopo- diaceae.—An erect, branched, white-mealy herb 2 to 8 feet tall; stems angular or ridged; leaves ovate-lanceolate, gray-green above, white-mealy beneath, 1 to 4 inches long, coarsely few-dentate, 3-nerved; flowers greenish, small, sessile, in spikes clustered in the upper leaf axils; seed small, glossy black, lens-shaped. The pollen collected, rarely the leaves. Common in waste places about and farm buildings throughout the state; a weed. An extract of the pollen is use
The drug plants of Illinois drugplantsofilli44teho Year: 1951 GHENOPODIUM ALBUM L. Lamb's quarters, pigweed. Chenopo- diaceae.—An erect, branched, white-mealy herb 2 to 8 feet tall; stems angular or ridged; leaves ovate-lanceolate, gray-green above, white-mealy beneath, 1 to 4 inches long, coarsely few-dentate, 3-nerved; flowers greenish, small, sessile, in spikes clustered in the upper leaf axils; seed small, glossy black, lens-shaped. The pollen collected, rarely the leaves. Common in waste places about and farm buildings throughout the state; a weed. An extract of the pollen is used to a slight extent as a hay fever antigen; the leaves are said to be antiscorbutic.
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