Pratericola Characteristics

plants white-mealy

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

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