Chenopodium atrovirens

Dark green goosefoot

Family: Chenopodiaceae · Type: annual · Native

Dark green goosefoot is a California native annual found in northwestern California, the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, Peninsular Ranges, Great Basin, and northern Mojave Desert in open places, scrub, woodland, and conifer forest at elevations of 300 to 3,500 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces small green flowers in dense clusters along axillary and terminal spikes. Growing with many-branched erect stems 7 to 60 centimeters tall, it spreads widely from its base. Its leaves are narrowly oblong or elliptic, 9 to 25 millimeters long, with a strongly upcurved petiole and occasionally having 1 to 2 small lobes near the base. The fruit is small, smooth, and approximately 1 to 1.5 millimeters in diameter, with a loose wall that detaches as it ages.

Habitat: Open places, scrub, woodland, conifer forest

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: 300-3500 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR, SN, SnBr, PR, GB, n DMoj

California counties: San Diego, Fresno, San Joaquin, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Mono, Inyo, El Dorado, Lassen, Tulare, Riverside, Glenn, Siskiyou, Alpine, Nevada, Placer, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Humboldt, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Tehama, Tuolumne, Butte, Ventura, Amador, Santa Barbara

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.