Tom Bridgeland wrote:
>I am a little confused by the names you give here. I believe that what
>you call lambsquarter is amaranth.
No, they are different plants.
>Pig weed is something quite different, it grows in pig pens because it
>is one of the few plants that even pigs won't eat.
Pigweed is a name used for both amaranth and lamb's quarters.
>At least that is the way I learned them years ago on the farm. Does
>anyone have a
>URL for a weed site with pictures? I would like to check this out.
You can find sites with pictures off my www.foraging.com page. I have lots
of my own pictures, but with PhotoPoint biting the dust they no longer are
on the web.
Don.