Herbaceous plant considered by growers weed, although in some places is used as medicinal. Scientifically Chenopodium album. Chenopodium means goose foot in Greek: ken kenos ( 41 goose; and pous, podos ( 41 foot;. Spain has more than 80 popular names such as dusky haze, edge orache, barking cabbage, pestoso damn, burriqueso, cenilgo, chamarisco, cinublo, jenijo, ragwort, meldrasco, pispajaro, wild quinoa, mala yerba, zeniciello