Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Fat Hen, Chenopodium album, Praiseach fhiáin
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Fat Hen
Chenopodium album
Praiseach fhiáin
Family: Chenopodiaceae

Flowering: July-October. Annual. Possibly introduced.

Flower clusters whitish or whitish-pink. Whole plant is mealy. Leaves greyish-green, diamond-lanceolate shaped, lobed, entire or blunt-toothed. Angular stems. Very variable. Height: 30-100cm.

Very common in gardens, arable and waste ground. Prefers rich, nitrogenous ground.

Similar: Common Orache, Atriplex patula

Fat Hen, Chenopodium album, Praiseach fhiáin

Fat Hen, Chenopodium album, Praiseach fhiáin
Fat Hen, Chenopodium album, Praiseach fhiáin

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