CHENOPODIACEAE

Chenopodium
Chenopodium rubrum

Red Goosefoot

Uncommon but perhaps under-recorded. Waste places.

Chenopodium album

Fat-hen

Ubiquitous. Weed of cultivation, allotments, gardens and waste places.

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Bassia
Bassia scoparia

Summer-cypress

Salt-spray zone of Clive Sulivan Way and Hedon Road. Also on sea wall near Albert Dock. Locally abundant.

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Atriplex
Atriplex prostrata

Spear-leaved Orache

Common. Waste places, roadsides and allotments.

Atriplex littoralis

Grass-leaved Orache

Found on Humber shore at the western edge of the city. Can be very abundant in the salt spray zone of Clive Sulivan Way..

Atriplex patula

Common Orache

Widespread, similar places and often with A. prostrata.

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Beta
Beta vulgaris maritima

Sea Beet

Recorded by Ray Eades, 1996.

Beta vulgaris vulgaris

Beet

Roadside casual, Hedon road 1997.

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R Middleton, r.middleton@geo.hull.ac.uk, last updated 14 September 1997