lamb's-quarter

Pigweed greens, lamb's-quarter, young clover, and dandelion leaves seasoned with coltsfoot were cooking in another pot, and a sauce of dried, tart apples mixed with wild rose petals and a lucky find of honey steamed near another fire.

The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980

We call it lamb's-quarter, for the lamb doth eat it by choice.

Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

Luxuriant beds of the green stuff known in the United States as lamb's-quarter, abound, and I put one of the sowars to gathering some with the idea of cooking it for supper.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

When she came in, the husband told her that the overseer had sent me to live with them; and she and her oldest child, who was a boy, immediately set about preparing their supper, by boiling some of the leaves of the weed, called lamb's-quarter, in the pot.

Fifty years in chains, or, The life of an American slave, Charles Ball 1859

The lamb's-quarter, wild cucumber, sand-rush, and narrow dock, are also common. "

First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 1805