Chenopodium glaucum
Tracheophyta
›Magnoliopsida›Chenopodiaceae›Chenopodium›Chenopodium glaucum
Ecology
An annual of disturbed, nutrient-rich waste ground and manure heaps, and on damp ground near the sea; it is also recorded on rubbish tips and around docks and wharves. Lowland.
Status
Archaeophyte
Trends
This species was first recorded in the wild in 1713. There has been a marked decline since the 1962 Atlas. Most records are of small, casual populations or even single plants.
World Distribution
A Circumpolar Temperate species, but absent from eastern N. America; widely naturalised elsewhere.
© F.C. Eccleston
Bembridge Marsh
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Bembridge Marsh
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Hill Fm, St Helen's
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Hill Fm, St Helen's
© G. Toone, IWNHAS
Hill Fm, St Helen's
© G. Toone, IWNHAS
Broad Habitats
Built-up areas and gardens
Light (Ellenberg): 8
Moisture (Ellenberg): 6
Reaction (Ellenberg): 7
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 9
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 3
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 4
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 16.1
Annual Precipitation (mm): 724
Height (cm): 50
Perennation - primary
Annual
Life Form - primary
Therophyte (annual land plant)
Woodiness
Herbaceous
Clonality - primary
Little or no vegetative spread
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 157
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 2
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 2
Atlas Change Index: -1.32
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000003104
Atlas text references
Atlas (83c)
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1986. Atlas of north European vascular plants north of the Tropic of Cancer. 3 vols.
Jalas & Suominen (1980)
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1965. Vergleichende Chorologie der zentraleuropäischen Flora. Volume 1. 2 vols.