Species: Chenopodium subglabrum

Smooth Goosefoot
Species
Plants

Smooth Goosefoot is an annual with erect, simple, or highly stems 2-3 (8) dm high. The alternate leaves are linear with entire margins, single veined, glabrous, up to 3 cm long. The small, green flowers are grouped in remote clusters in simple or branched spikes. Each flower lacks petals but has 5 glabrous sepals and 5 stamens. The 1-seeded fruit is compressed hemispheric and is relatively large; 1-2 mm across, exposing a jet-black fruit at maturity that readily separates from the pericarp (fruit wall).

Source: Encyclopedia of Life

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Anthophyta
Class

Dicotyledoneae

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Genus

Chenopodium

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Classification
Other Global Common Names
smooth goosefoot
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Flowering Plants - Goosefoot Family
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Anthophyta - Dicotyledoneae - Caryophyllales - Chenopodiaceae - Chenopodium - Welsh et al. (2008) include Chenopodium subglabrum in C. leptophyllum, but it is recognized as distinct by FNA (2003) and Kartesz (2009 draft).

Smooth Goosefoot is an annual with erect, simple, or highly stems 2-3 (8) dm high. The alternate leaves are linear with entire margins, single veined, glabrous, up to 3 cm long. The small, green flowers are grouped in remote clusters in simple or branched spikes. Each flower lacks petals but has 5 glabrous sepals and 5 stamens. The 1-seeded fruit is compressed hemispheric and is relatively large; 1-2 mm across, exposing a jet-black fruit at maturity that readily separates from the pericarp (fruit wall).

Source: Encyclopedia of Life

Short General Description
Shallow-rooted annual herb with many ascending, branched stems, 20-80 cm tall; leaves are alternate, linear, smooth-edged, fleshy, one-veined, and usually hairless; flowers small, greenish-reddish and produced in widely spaced small rounded clusters; seeds are lens-shaped, black, and shiny (COSEWIC 2006).
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G3G4
Global Status Last Reviewed
2009-12-16
Global Status Last Changed
1998-01-26
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
FNA (2003) shows the discontinuous distribution of <i>Chenopodium subglabrum</i> from Alberta and Saskatchewan, with an outlying dot in Manitoba, south through Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado, east to the very western edges of the Dakotas and into the western third of Nebraska, with outlying dots in Washington, Nevada, and Iowa. Kartesz (2009 draft data) shows the outlying reports in Washington, Nevada, and Iowa as introduced. There is a collection from an historical population in Kansas that is thought to be C. subglabrum (C. Freeman, pers. comm., Dec. 2009), but perhaps due to a data error is not on the FNA map.
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