Chenopodium hybridum
Tracheophyta
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Ecology
An annual of disturbed, nutrient-rich arable land and waste ground. It is a characteristic weed of humus-rich cultivated soils in the Fens. Lowland.
Status
Archaeophyte
Trends
C. hybridum is known from archaeological evidence to have been present in Britain since Roman times. There has been no change in distribution since the 1962 Atlas.
World Distribution
As an archaeophyte C. hybridum has a Circumpolar Temperate distribution.
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Broad Habitats
Arable and horticultural (includes orchards, excludes domestic gardens)
Light (Ellenberg): 7
Moisture (Ellenberg): 4
Reaction (Ellenberg): 7
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 7
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 3.7
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 16.2
Annual Precipitation (mm): 695
Height (cm): 100
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: 285
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 0
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 1
Atlas Change Index: -0.32
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000003101
Atlas text references
Atlas (82d)
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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.