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Habit Plants perennial.
Leaf

blades triangular, glabrous or sparsely farinose.

Flowers

perianth segments 5, short connate near base, margins erose;

stigmas 1 mm.

Seeds

vertical.

Chenopodium sect. Agathophytum

Distribution
North America; Europe
Discussion

Species 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 4, p. 278.
Parent taxa Chenopodiaceae > Chenopodium > subg. Blitum
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms section Agathophytum, Blitum section Agathophyton
Name authority (Moquin-Tandon) Bentham & Hooker f.: Gen. Pl. 3: 52. (1880)
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