Chenopodium californicum (California Goosefoot)

3/23/19 Harford Springs Reserve (near entrance), Gavilan Hills,

Riverside County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: California Goosefoot

SPECIES: Chenopodium californicum

FAMILY: Chenopodiaceae (Goosefoot Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 3/23/19

LOCATION: Harford Spring Reserve (near entrance), Gavilan Hills, Riverside County, CA

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Treatment from Jepson eFlora:

NATIVE

Habit: Perennial herb 20--90 cm; caudex stout, fleshy. 

Stem: several from base, decumbent to ascending. 

Leaf: blade 40--100 mm, broadly deltate, coarsely dentate to wavy-toothed, base truncate to hastate or cordate, tip acute. 

Inflorescence: clusters < 10 mm diam, in terminal, interrupted spikes 8--20 cm. 

Flower: calyx tube generally > lobes, enclosing fruit, lobes 4(5), oblong to elliptic, +- erect, flat, +- glabrous. 

Fruit: 1.5--2 mm diam; wall attached to seed. 

Seed: vertical. 

Ecology: Generally open sites, sandy to clay soils;

Elevation: < 2000 m. 

Bioregional Distribution: s NCo, NCoRO, NCoRI, c&s SNF, Teh, GV, CW, SW, s SNE, w DMoj; 

Distribution Outside California: Baja California. 

Flowering Time: Mar--Sep 

Jepson eFlora Author: Steven E. Clemants & Nuri Benet-Pierce