Chenopodium rubrum var. humile

Red goosefoot

Family: Chenopodiaceae · Type: annual · Native

Red goosefoot is a California native annual found in northern coastal, central, and southern California bioregions including the Great Basin and Mojave Desert in open, saline places and drying mudflats at elevations below 1,100 meters. Flowering from August to October, this plant produces small greenish-white flowers with distinctive reddish tints. Growing prostrate to spreading, with stems reaching 10 to 30 centimeters long, it forms low-growing ground cover in salt-tolerant habitats. Its leaves are entire or shallowly toothed, typically green to reddish-green, with margins that vary from smooth to slightly irregular. The plant produces tiny round seeds approximately 0.6 to 0.8 millimeters in diameter, well-adapted to survive in harsh, salty environments.

Habitat: Open, saline places, drying mudflats

Bloom period: Aug-Oct

Elevation: < 1100 m

Bioregions: NCoRO, NCoRI, CaR, Teh, GV, CCo, SnFrB, SCo, GB, DMoj

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