Chenopodium murale
Tracheophyta
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Ecology
An annual of disturbed, nutrient-rich cultivated and waste ground. Usually casual, it is long-established near the sea in S.E. England. Lowland.
Status
Archaeophyte
Trends
C. murale has been present in Britain since Roman times. Like some other Chenopodium species it has declined markedly since the 1962 Atlas.
World Distribution
As an archaeophyte C. murale has a Eurosiberian Southern-temperate distribution; it is widely naturalised outside this range.
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Broad Habitats
Arable and horticultural (includes orchards, excludes domestic gardens)
Light (Ellenberg): 8
Moisture (Ellenberg): 6
Reaction (Ellenberg): 6
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 7
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 4.2
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 16
Annual Precipitation (mm): 797
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: 412
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 8
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 13
Atlas Change Index: -1.63
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000003099
Atlas text references
Atlas (82b)
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1986. Atlas of north European vascular plants north of the Tropic of Cancer. 3 vols.
Jalas & Suominen (1980)