Plant · P-111

Lambsquarters

Chenopodium album

Lambsquarters shows up on its own wherever ground has been dug, manured, or otherwise disturbed, so the only decision is whether to eat it or pull it. Cooked leaves work as a spinach substitute and the seed grinds into a grain-like meal. Fed fresh and cut in modest amounts it is good livestock forage, but the same plant grown on rich soil and baled into hay concentrates nitrates that have killed cattle within the hour. It seeds by the tens of thousands per plant, so cutting it before it flowers doubles as the harvest and the control.