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Oxybasis rubra
red goosefoot
Specimens
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Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to the Great Plains, Great Lakes Region, and Atlantic Coast.

Habitat: Moist, saline soils.

Flowers: July-October

Origin: Both native and introduced

Growth Duration: Annual

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Description:
General:

Glandless annual, the stems spreading to erect, freely branched, 1-5 dm. tall, mostly glabrous.

Leaves:

Leaves alternate, green on both surfaces without mealy excrescence, often becoming reddish-tinged, the blades sub-entire to deeply dentate, deltoid- or rhombic-ovate, 1.5-6 cm. long, narrowed abruptly to a slender petiole shorter or longer than the blade.

Flowers:

Flowers sessile and tightly clustered in short, simple axillary spikes and a freely compounded terminal spike; perianth cleft to about the middle, the 3-5 lobes ovate, rounded.

Fruits:

Fruits oval in outline, strongly compressed, 0.8-1 mm. long.

Accepted Name:
Oxybasis rubra (L.) S. Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch
Publication: Willdenowia 42(1): 15. 2012.

Synonyms & Misapplications:
Chenopodium rubrum L. [FNA4, HC]
Infraspecies:
Additional Resources:

PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Oxybasis rubra in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database

WA Flora Checklist: Oxybasis rubra checklist entry

OregonFlora: Oxybasis rubra information

E-Flora BC: Oxybasis rubra atlas page

CalPhotos: Oxybasis rubra photos

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