Chenopodium nevadense

Nevada goosefoot

Family: Chenopodiaceae · Type: annual · Native

Nevada goosefoot is a California native annual found in the central Sierra Nevada (eastern slope) and eastern Sierra Nevada in washes and scrub at elevations of 1,400 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces small, inconspicuous flowers in axillary and terminal panicle-like clusters. Growing with many-branched stems 15 to 40 centimeters tall that fork in pairs, it develops a spherical shape when fruiting. Its leaves are distinctive, with ovate to diamond-shaped blades 6 to 18 millimeters long, often with two spreading lobes and a powdery undersurface. The plant produces tiny black seeds less than one millimeter long, horizontally attached within a minutely textured fruit wall.

Habitat: Washes, scrub

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1400-2000 m

Bioregions: c SNH (e slope), SNE

California counties: Mono, Inyo, Tulare

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