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Spinacia oleracea L.

See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
Matthew 6:28-29 

English anagrams
Germany
Russia

Distribution in USA and Canada

USA (AK, CA, CT, KS, MA, ME, NC, NH, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TX, UT, VA, WA), CAN (AB, MB, NT, SK, YT)


Map for Spinacia oleracea L.
USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Chenopodiaceae

Genus: Spinacia

Species

PLANT PROFILE  : (*)

Common names

U.S. name: spinach

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Annual
 

Synonyms:

Images

Spinacia oleracea
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Spinacia oleracea
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Other informations

Index of taxa

Genera of  Chenopodiaceae: