lambsquarters epitome of incomprehensibility My exciting discovery of last week, not that I hadn't been picking them and flinging them out of the garden before...but this time I looked them up through an image search, did more comparing, and discovered what they were called and that they were edible. The little plants grow easily, often coming up in tilled soil. They're easy weeds to pull (not growing deep roots like dandelions) and the leaves taste slightly minty or radishy without being very strong-tasting (Mom thinks they don't taste much, but then she'll eat them - unlike with dandelion leaves). And they look nice: pretty leaves with a silvery sheen, especially the newly unfurled ones. 240709 ... raze (i clicked on this blathe expecting to read about a lamb's head office, and instead i learned something about a plant i never knew existed until just now.) 240709 ... e_o_i The animal-related names make it both fun and confusing! Another name for it is goosefoot, so my mind combined them at first and called the plant "lambsfoot." Dad called it "pigweed" at first - he was the one noticed it and asked me to look it up, saying he remembered a plant like that from where he grew up. It seems that the one growing around here is chenopodium album (white goosefoot, lambsquarters, fat-hen, Insert Funny Animal Name Here) and the one more common in New England is chenopodium berlandieri (pitseed or pit-seeded goosefoot, pigweed, also called lambsquarters...) though I'm not 100% sure of the exact species. It's definitely the genus chenopodium, anyway. 240710 what's it to you? who go blather from