Dysphania multifida

Cut leaved goosefoot

Family: Chenopodiaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Cut leaved goosefoot is a naturalized annual herb found in northwestern California, central Sierra Nevada foothills, northern Sacramento Valley, coastal western California, southern California coast, and Channel Islands including San Nicolas and Santa Rosa islands in disturbed areas at elevations below 1,400 meters. Flowering from July to October, this plant produces small green flowers in tight clusters less than 5 millimeters in diameter. Growing with spreading to decumbent branches 8 to 50 centimeters tall and glandular stems, it creates a delicate, open structure. Its leaves are sessile with oblong to elliptic blades 3 to 45 millimeters long, deeply and irregularly divided into narrow linear lobes with minute glandular undersides. The fruit is a small ovoid seed approximately 1 millimeter in diameter, dark brown-black, warty, and shiny.

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Bloom period: Jul-Oct

Elevation: < 1400 m

Bioregions: NW, c SNF, n ScV, CW, SCo, ChI (San Nicolas, Santa Rosa islands), s WTR

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