Chenopodium glaucum var. salinum

Oak leaved goosefoot

Family: Chenopodiaceae · Type: annual · Native

Oak leaved goosefoot is a California native annual found in the Cascade Range, eastern Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, and Great Basin in open places with saline soils, drying ponds, and streambanks at elevations below 2,200 meters. Flowering from July to October, this plant produces small, inconspicuous greenish-white flowers in compact spherical clusters about 2 millimeters in diameter. Growing with prostrate lower stems and ascending upper stems 8 to 20 centimeters tall, it develops a delicate branching structure. Its leaves are lanceolate to oblong, 5 to 35 millimeters long, with wavy-toothed margins and a white-powdery underside that contrasts with its glabrous upper surface. The tiny horizontal seeds are approximately 0.9 to 1 millimeter long, nestled within three rounded sepals.

Habitat: Open places, generally saline soils, drying ponds, streambanks

Bloom period: Jul-Oct

Elevation: < 2200 m

Bioregions: CaR, SNH (e slope), SnBr, GB

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