Chenopodium occurs as genus of astir 150 metal money of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae, known generically as a Goosefoots. It contains many plants of shaver to moderate importance when food crops, both leaf vegetables and pseudo-cereals, including Quinoa, Kañiwa, Fat Hen, Good King Henry, and Epazote. Goosefoots come utilized when food plants by a bit of Lepidoptera species including Heart and Club.

Under a older Cronquist system of plant classification, they were treated in their have personal, a Chenopodiaceae.

;Selected species Chenopodium album (Fat Hen) Chenopodium ambrosoides (Epazote) Chenopodium bonus-henricus (Good King Henry) Chenopodium botrys Chenopodium capitatum (Strawberry-blite) Chenopodium chenopodioides (Small Red Goosefoot) Chenopodium ficifolium (Fig-leaved Goosefoot) Chenopodium foliosum Chenopodium giganteum Chenopodium glaucum (Oak-leaved Goosefoot) Chenopodium hybridum (Maple-leaved Goosefoot) Chenopodium murale (Nettle-leaved Goosefoot) Chenopodium opulifolium (Grey Goosefoot) Chenopodium pallidicaule (Kañiwa) Chenopodium polyspermum (Many-seeded Goosefoot) Chenopodium purpurascens (Purple Goosefoot) Chenopodium quinoa (Quinoa) Chenopodium rubrum (Red Goosefoot) Chenopodium suecicum (Green Goosefoot) Chenopodium urbicum (Upright Goosefoot) Chenopodium vulvaria (Stinking Goosefoot, Notch-weed)