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Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 4-8 inches (10-20 cm)
Plant Spread: 16-20 inches (40-50 cm)
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Other: Leaves are edible
Fruit: Showy
Other: edible
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Uses: Groundcover
Vegetable
Propagation: Seeds: Depth to plant seed: cover the seeds very thin
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Pollinators: Wind

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Common names
  • Strawberry Blite
  • Strawberry Sticks
  • Strawberry Spinach
  • Beetberry
  • Blite Goosefoot
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Blitum capitatum
  • Synonym: Chenopodium capitatum
  • Synonym: Chenopodium exsuccum

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Location: RHS Hyde Hall, Essex.UK.
Date: 2022-07-25
Location: Jasper, Canada | August, 2022
Date: 2022-08-06
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2010-08-24
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2010-08-24
Location: Cascade Falls, Banff, Canada | August, 2022
Date: 2022-08-08
Location: Along the athabasca river, Banff, Canada | August, 2022
Date: 2022-08-08
Location: Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Date: July
credit: Magnus Manske

 Photo Courtesy of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Used with permissi
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Kalama, Wa.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Botanical Garden Duesseldorf (germany)
Date: 2017-04-07
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piksihk On September 2, 2015 Seeds sown
antsinmypants On March 15, 2021 Plant emerged
antsinmypants On March 6, 2021 Seeds sown
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