2 Pigweeds: Lambsquarters and Red-root Amaranth

It's Weed Wednesday! Every Wednesday for the next few weeks I'll be posting a video about some gnarly weed! This week I'm covering two pesky critters: Lambsquarters and Red-root Amaranth. AKA Chenopodium album and Amaranthus retroflexus.

BONUS!
Interesting stuff that I learned while making this video!
Chenopodiacea is no longer it's own family. It's now spelled Chenopodioideae and is a subfamily of Amaranthaceae, which actually has several subfamilies, including:
Amaranthoideae
Betoideae
Camphorosmoideae
Chenopodioideae
Corispermoideae
Gomphrenoideae
Polycnemoideae
Salicornioideae
Salsoloideae
Suaedoideae
This change apparently happened in 2016 and taxonomists are still working out the details....
This means that one of my favorite weed reference books is now out of date and now I just don't even know what to do with my life.... I think I know how Pluto feels...
Oh well. After a moment of reflection that some of my college knowledge may need to be updated, I pick myself up again and make sure to double check my facts online - the resource that is always updating in real time!

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[Melanin_Move]

Lord we love this in the Caribbean. The one with those hanging green seeds and red roots are called Callalloo. They are delish! It’s also native and a staple in Africa.

[phylwilton]

Lambs quarter is a free vegetable! People harvest them as healthy side dish, like salad or cooked like spinach.

[trumplostlol]

Some people or culture eat amaranth as vegetables and some as grains. But they have domesticated this plant differently. The amaranth varieties that are cultivated for grains are much taller with much bigger flower heads. Those that are cultivated for greens are shorter and more leafy with smaller flower heads.

[GardenUPLandscape]

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[teresaproaps]

My amaranth has little spikey things between the stem and a leaf .. someone said these must be removed before eating. You didn't mention it, so was wondering if you do this.

[botanicaltreasures]

I’ve eaten lambsquarters before. It tastes good with a bit of butter.

[sharonwarren]

We eat a lot of lambs quarters. I grow them on purpose. Lambs quarters is more nutritious than spinach. We cook our lambs quarters and also dry it for soups for winter.

[nikolayminchev]

Amaranth and Lambsquarters are medicinal and edible

[rippodamankalsi]

Where I will get in Canada. In which stores

[JasongCLJ]

i would have let the amaranth grow and get the seeds .... because it is the tastiest grain that i know of .. better than wheat, quinoa, etc etc etc .

[jonathanerwin]

There's about a trillion different pigweeds I've seen plenty

[goveriusmylliemumlongchann]

I love your video. But suggest to make it a bit more clear if possible. Thsnk you ma'm.