Chenopodium album

Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is elsewhere considered a weed. Common names include lambs quarters, melde, goosefoot and fat-hen, though the latter two are also applied to other species of the genus Chenopodium, for which reason it is often distinguished as white goosefoot. It is sometimes also called pigweed However, Pigweed is also a name for a few weeds in the family: Amaranthaceae, The Name pigweed is used for Amaranthus albus, Redroot pigweed and others.Chenopodium album is extensively cultivated and consumed in Northern India as a food crop, and in English texts it may be called by its Hindi name bathua or bathuwa It is called Pappukura in Telugu, Paruppukkirai in Tamil, Kaduoma in Kannada, Vastuccira in Malayalam, and Chakvit in Konkani.