Chenopodium quinoa

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Chenopodium quinoa

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Kemper Code: A676

Common Name: quinoa
Zone: to
Plant Type: Annual
Family: Chenopodiaceae
Missouri Native: No
Native Range: South America
Height: 2 to 2.5 feet
Spread: 1 to 1.5 feet
Bloom Time: -
Bloom Color:
Sun: Full sun
Water: Medium
Maintenance: Low

Plant Culture and Characteristics

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Uses:		Wildlife:	Flowers:	Leaves:	Fruit:
Hedge	Suitable as annual	Attracts birds	Has showy flowers	Leaves colorful	Has showy fruit
Shade tree	Culinary herb	Attracts	Has fragrant flowers	Leaves fragrant	Fruit edible
Street tree	Vegetable	hummingbirds	Flowers not showy	Good fall color	Other:
Flowering tree	Water garden plant	Attracts	Good cut flower	Evergreen	Winter interest
Gr. cover (<1')	Will naturalize	butterflies	Good dried flower		Thorns or spines

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Plant in early summer, direct seed in rows 3' apart, thin to 1 foot intervals.

Noteworthy Characteristics:

Native to southern Mexico.

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Uses:

Grown as a vegetable in southern Mexico, immature flowering/fruiting stalks can be fried in egg batter with mozzarella cheese or can be steamed like broccoli. Young leaves are a mild tasting spinach substitute, useful for those wishing to avoid spinaches’ calcium-sequestering oxalic acid.