Common Name: wormseed MexicanteaScientific Name: Chenopodium ambrosioides L.Family Name: Chenopodiaceae - Goosefoot FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced annual or sometimes weak perennial, reproducing by seed Stemsupright, tall, branches ascending, green, smooth or with minute hairs Leavesalternate, short-stalked, oblong-oval to lanceolate, margins entire to strongly waved or deeply lobed, minute yellow glands, reduced above, strong unpleasant odor Flowers5-sepaled, petals absent, greenish, small, densely clustered compound spike, long and slender; terminal and axillary