Chenopodium

Goosefoots, genus Chenopodium
Fat Hen (Chenopodium album)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Amaranthaceae
Subfamily:	Chenopodioideae
Genus:	Chenopodium
Species
See text.

Chenopodium is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae, known generically as the Goosefoots. It contains several plants of minor to moderate importance as food crops, both leaf vegetables and pseudo-cereals, including Quinoa, Kañiwa, Fat Hen, Good King Henry, and Epazote. Goosefoots are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Heart and Club and The Nutmeg.

Under the older Cronquist system of plant classification, they were treated in their own family, the Chenopodiaceae.

Selected species

• Chenopodium album (Fat Hen)
• Chenopodium ambrosoides (Epazote)
• Chenopodium bonus-henricus (Good King Henry)
• Chenopodium botrys (Jerusalem Oak Goosefoot, Feathered Geranium)
• Chenopodium capitatum (Strawberry-blite)
• Chenopodium chenopodioides (Small Red Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium ficifolium (Fig-leaved Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium foliosum
• Chenopodium giganteum
• Chenopodium glaucum (Oak-leaved Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium hybridum (Maple-leaved Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium murale (Nettle-leaved Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium opulifolium (Grey Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium pallidicaule (Kañiwa)
• Chenopodium polyspermum (Many-seeded Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium purpurascens (Purple Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium quinoa (Quinoa)
• Chenopodium rubrum (Red Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium suecicum (Green Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium urbicum (Upright Goosefoot)
• Chenopodium vulvaria (Stinking Goosefoot, Notch-weed)