in taxon leafy vegetable plant lamb's quarter plant white goosefoot pigweed lamb's quarters common lambsquarters PLANTS:CHAL7 Chenopodium album is a fast-growing weedy annual plant in the genus *Chenopodium*. Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is elsewhere considered a weed. Common names include lamb's quarters, melde, goosefoot and fat-hen, though the latter two are also applied to other species of the genus Chenopodium, for which reason it is often distinguished as white goosefoot.It is sometimes also called pigweed.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenopodium_album] chenopodium album fat-hen goosefoot, white lamb's quarter lambsquarters melde pigweed white goosefoot goosefoot family Chenopodium album requires discussion