Mexicantea

Mexicantea, Wormwood Goosefoot

Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants
(formerly Chenopodium ambrosioides L.)

Chenopodiaceae (Goosefoot Family)

▲ ▼ young plants

▲ young plant initiating flowering

▲ ▼ flowers

▲ ▼ mature flowering plants

▲ mature, post-flowering plants

Mexicantea:

summer annual with dark green stems and narrow, toothed leaves, with all of plant having a strong wormwood or medicinal odor
leaves narrower than lambsquarters, with no whitish coating
grows 1-5’ tall, less branching, more of a narrow plant than lambsquarters
more localized in its occurrence, and less aggressive than lambsquarters
strong odor may give off-flavor to hay, milk