Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-    Plate No. 276

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-COMMON_NAMES-Strawberry Blite, Goosefoot,
Pigweed
-GENUS-Blitum
-SPECIES-Blitum virgatum
-CLASS-Monandria
-ORDER-Digynia
-AUTHORITY-Linnaeus

-MODERN_GENUS-Chenopodium 
-MODERN_SPECIES-Chenopodium foliosum
-MODERN_FAMILY- Chenopodiaceae

-PLANT_TYPE- annual
-COLOR- bright-red
-SEASON- summer
-NATIVE_REGION- Asia, S Europe, NW Africa
-ZONE- 5

-SOURCE-  The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME-  8
-PUB_DATE-  1794
-REISSUED- __
-EDITOR-William Curtis
-ARTIST-S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD-  Disc 0416 IMG0020.PCD