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Chenopodiastrum murale (L.) S. Fuentes-B., Uotila & Borsch

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Nomenclature:

1. Chenopodiastrum murale (L.) Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch, Willdenowia 42(1): 14 (2012). Bas.: Chenopodium murale L., Sp. P1. 219 (1753); Boiss., Fl. Orient. 4: 902 (1879). Type: Habitat in Europae muris aggeribusque, Herb. Linn. 313.6 (LINN). [Plate 202]

Common name:

Nettle-Leaved Goosfoot; כף-אווז האשפות.

Habitat:

Roadsides, waste places, refuse heaps, irrigated fields, and herbaceous vegetation; often near nests of harvesting ants and dung heaps. Coastal Galilee, Acco Plain, Carmel Coast, Sharon Plain, Philistean Plain, Upper and Lower Galilee, Mt. Carmel, Esdraelon Plain, Samaria, Shefela, Judean Mts., Judean Desert, Negev, Hula Plain, Upper and Lower Jordan Valleys, Dead Sea Valley, Arava Valley, [Mt. Hermon], Golan, Gilead, Ammon, Moav, Edom. Very common.

Area distribution:

Pluriregional.

Notes:

Two varieties of this species: Var. microphyllum Boiss., l.c. and var. humile Peterm. (cited from Asch. & Graebn., Synopsis 5, 1: 35, 1913), should be, in our opinion, included within the variability range of the typical form.

Used as a salad herb.

Chenopodium murale is probably the most common species of the family reported in archaeobotanical articles. It was found in 8 sites: Mousterian Kebara cave, Mt. Carmel, ≈60,000 years BP [Lev & al. 2005]; Chalcolithic Shiqmim, NW Negev [Kislev 1987]; Bronze Age Tel Beth-Shean [Simchoni & al. 2007]; Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Aphek [Kislev and Mahler-Slasky 2009]; over 150 seeds at Iron Age Ashkelon [Weiss and Kislev 2004]; single seed at Iron Age Ḥorbat Rosh Zayit, W Galilee [Kislev and Melamed 2000]; Roman Nahal-Yattir, N Negev [Kislev 1986]; Byzantine 'En Gedi [Melamed and Kislev 2005].