Chenopodium hians

Gaping goosefoot

Family: Chenopodiaceae · Type: annual · Native

Gaping goosefoot is a California native annual found in northwestern California, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, southern Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and Great Basin in open places, scrub, and woodland at elevations of 300 to 2,700 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces small green-white flowers in sparse, widely spaced clusters along axillary and terminal panicles. Growing 30 to 80 centimeters tall with generally sparsely branched stems that are distinctively scented, it has an open, airy growth habit. Its leaves are narrowly lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 8 to 40 millimeters long, prominently three-veined, with a tapered base and acute or rounded tip, appearing powdery on the underside. The fruit is small, approximately 1 to 1.5 millimeters in diameter, with a glandular-roughened wall.

Habitat: Open places, scrub, woodland

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: 300-2700 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR, SN, SCoRI, TR, PR, GB

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