Album Characteristics

	calyx not fleshy even in fruit
	calyx usually greenish; NOT bright red and strawberry-like
	calyx lobes keeled
	stamens 5 (but only 2 can be seen in this picture)

Chenopodium Characteristics

	flowers not sunk into a fleshy stem
	no flowers with enclosing bracts
	calyx lobes not forming slender hooked spines, but may be horned or narrowly winged
	calyx with 3-5 sepals
	stamens usually over 3

Chenopodiaceae Characteristics
(Not all these points apply to all genera in Chenopodiaceae, but they all do apply to genus Chenopodium.)

	flowers small, numerous, greenish
	flowers not subtended by scarious bracts
	flowers with only one floral ring, with sepals but not petals
	perianth segments greenish
	perianth segments 2-5
	sepals herbaceous or fleshy