Description:
Lambsquarters is a common annual weed in Wyoming, fast growing and very competitive, consuming much water.
In spring leaves emerge generally taking a purplish hue on the underside of the leaves and often the upper surface also, they have a sandy feel. The leaf is long oval or arrow shape often with uneven edges a light green mid vein becoming the long petiole. Leaves are alternate becoming smooth to lightly hairy.
A strong central branching stem may grow 6 ft. tall. breaking off at ground level in fall becoming one of the many varieties of tumbleweed.
Flowers are numerous, very small and inconspicuous developing in the leaf axils and on the terminal ends of all the stems.
Lambsquarters is good as feed for livestock, however in cattle the nitrate concentration can be converted to nitrites which affects the oxygen up take function in the blood.
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Leafy Spurge Growth Habit: Perennial, erect, up to 3' tall, spreading by seed or creeping roots. Leaves: Alternate, long, narrow, ¼" wide and 2" long, usually drooping. Flowers: Inconspicuous, surrounded by large heart shaped floral leaves which turn yellow-green near maturity.
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