Strawberry Blite
Blitum capitatum
Atriplex/Chenopodium family (Amaranthaceae)
This entire plant becomes anthocyanic (red) late in its life cycle. This coloring, and especially the strawberry-like cluster of flowers gives the "Strawberry" name to the plant. Young leaves and tender shoots have long been used as a potherb. The fleshy clusters are used raw or cooked. Linnaeus named this species in 1753 from European specimens.
An entire leaf has smooth edges. Not toothed or lobed.
A herb is a plant whose stems die back to the ground in the winter.
An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seed, within one year, and then dies.
A simple leaf blade is one that is not divided into separate leaflets.
Like the teeth on a saw, leaves and other surfaces can have toothed edges.
fruit -- any seed-bearing structure in flowering plants. It is formed from the ovary after flowering.
A spike is an unbranched, indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are without stalks.
petiole -- the stalk of a leaf.
ascending -- growing obliquely upward and usually curved.
glabrous -- smooth, glossy, having no bristles or hair-like structures. Bald.
lanceolate -- Lance-shaped. Long, wider in the middle.