Common Name: kochia, summer cypress, fireweed, Mexican fireweed, mock cypress, belvedereScientific Name: Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad.Family Name: Chenopodiaceae - Goosefoot FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced annual, reproducing by seed Stemsupright, tall, many branched, soft hairs, often red-tinted in late season Leavesalternate, linear to narrow lanceolate or narrow oblanceolate, entire, sessile, pubescent to almost smooth, tip pointed, margins hairy, leaves small above Flowers5-sepaled, green, small and inconspicuous; terminal and axillary panicles