Leaf blade rhombic-ovate, lower ones to 15 cm, margin with a pair of larger teeth near base. Glomerules many flowered, forming mainly terminal, spikelike panicles. Perianth segments 3-5, narrowly obovate to spatulate. Seed horizontal, oblique, or vertical, 0.5-0.7 mm in diam., obviously pitted, rim margin acute. Fl. and fr. Jul-Oct.

* Wastelands, saline-alkaline places, field margins. Hebei, Heilongjiang, N Jiangsu, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, N Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, N Xinjiang.