Chenopodium berlandieri

Pitseed goosefoot, Pitseed Goosefoot

Family: Chenopodiaceae · Type: annual · Native

Pitseed goosefoot is a California native annual found in various habitats across the state's diverse landscapes. Flowering from summer to fall, this plant produces small, inconspicuous green flowers in dense branched spikes 5 to 17 centimeters long. Growing 10 to 60 centimeters tall with a branching, upright form, it has a distinctive powdery appearance. Its leaves are lanceolate to diamond-shaped, typically 15 to 30 millimeters long, with two subtle lobes near the base and slightly toothed edges. The tiny seeds are black with a distinctive honeycomb-pitted surface, characteristic of this unique goosefoot species.

California counties: Riverside, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Orange, Ventura, Shasta, Kern, El Dorado, Mono, Stanislaus, Imperial, Placer, Yolo, Colusa, Amador, San Francisco, Nevada, Alpine, Lassen, Modoc, Fresno, Madera, Plumas, Santa Barbara, Butte, Sierra, Siskiyou, Lake, Napa, Santa Clara, Monterey, Inyo, Santa Cruz, Alameda, Contra Costa, Tuolumne, San Mateo, San Benito, Merced, Sacramento, Sonoma, Solano

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