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Wild spinach is a common name for several plants with edible leaves and may refer to:

Species in the genus Chenopodium :


Species in the genus Cleome

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<i>Chenopodium album</i> Species of flowering plant in the goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae

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<i>Chenopodium</i> Genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae

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Saltbush Index of plants with the same common name

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<i>Cleome serrulata</i> Species of flowering plant

Cleome serrulata, commonly known as Rocky Mountain beeplant/beeweed, stinking-clover, bee spider-flower, skunk weed, Navajo spinach, and guaco, is a species of annual plant in the genus Cleome. Many species of insects are attracted to it, especially bees, which helps in the pollination of nearby plants. It is native to southern Canada and the western and central United States. The plant has often been used for food, to make dyes for paint, and as a treatment in traditional medicine.

Beeplant is a common name for several plants and may refer to:

Cudweed is a common name for several species, and may refer to:

Fat hen or fat-hen may refer to:

<i>Cleome</i> Genus of flowering plants

Cleome is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cleomaceae, commonly known as spider flowers, spider plants, spider weeds, or bee plants. Previously, it had been placed in the family Capparaceae, until DNA studies found the Cleomaceae genera to be more closely related to the Brassicaceae than the Capparaceae. Cleome and clammyweed, can sometimes be confused. The simplest way to differentiate the two is to compare the seedpods which project out or down on cleome and up on clammyweed.

Spider flower may refer to plant species within the genus Cleome including:

<i>Oxybasis rubra</i> Species of flowering plant

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Blite could refer to any one of the following plants:

C. spinosa may refer to:

Lamb's quarter, lambsquarters, and similar terms refer to any of various edible species of herbaceous plants otherwise known by the common names goosefoot or pigweed.

Bladderpod is a common name for several plants and may refer to:

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Cleome rutidosperma, commonly known as fringed spider flower or purple cleome, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cleome of the family Cleomaceae, native to tropical Africa. This species is an invasive weed throughout most lowland wet tropical areas of Asia and Australia. It is a very common weed of lawns.