Bitterroot Restoration

Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Common name: Batua shak, Botta shak, Bethusag(Beng.); Lamb’squarter, Goose-foot(Eng.).
Life cycle: Annul
Native Range: Native to Europe, Africa, Australasia, North America, and Oceania.

Chenopodium album is a fast-growing weedy annual plant. It is extensively cultivated and consumed in Northern India as a food crop. It tends to grow upright at first, reaching heights of 10-150 cm (rarely to 3 m), but typically becomes recumbent after flowering (due to the weight of the foliage and seeds) unless supported by other plants. Their leaves are alternate and can be varied in appearance. Their small flowers are radially symmetrical and grow in small cymes on a dense branched inflorescence 10-40 cm long.

Medicinally, Chenopodium album has been used to treat various symptoms attributable to nutritional deficiencies. It's also said to have sedative and refrigerant properties, and people have used the poulticed leaves to soothe burns.