Pratericola Characteristics

	plants white-mealy
	leaves grayish mealy, especially below
	flower clusters both terminal and axillary, usually longer than the leaves
	calyx not fleshy, even in fruit
	calyx usually greenish; NOT red and NOT strawberry-like

Chenopodium Characteristics

	herbs or low spineless shrubs
	stems scarcely fleshy, not jointed
	plants neither spiny nor with spine-tipped leaves
	plants may be glabrous, scurfy or pubescent; but NOT with long, soft hairs
	flowers not sunk into a fleshy stem
	no flowers with enclosing bracts
	fruiting calyx not developing horizontal scarious wings
	calyx lobes not forming slender hooked spines, but may be horned or narrowly winged

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

	herbs
	plants terrestrial, but sometimes growing in marshy places
	plants with stems or stemless, but with more than one pair of leaves
	flowers small, numerous, greenish
	flowers not subtended by scarious bracts
	flowers with only one floral ring, with sepals but not petals
	perianth segments greenish
	sepals herbaceous or fleshy