Slimleaf Goosefoot - Chenopodium pratericola
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Slimleaf Goosefoot - Chenopodium pratericola | dylan | Eastville park | 2 Dec 2025, 5:21 p.m. | 22 Nov 2025, 9:50 a.m. |
Species Description
A rare casual coming in with grain and top soil. Otherwise known as Desert Goosefoot.
Stace 4:
Chenopodium pratericola Rydb. (C. desiccatum auct. non A. Nelson, C. leptophyllum auct. non (Nutt. ex Moq.) S. Watson) - Slimleaf Goosefoot.
Plant mealy; stems well branched, ascending to erect, to 1m; leaves linear to linear-oblong, more or less entire; tepals strongly keeled; testa with reticulum of furrows; (2n=36). Neophyte-casual; tips and waste ground; rather rare, mainly from grain, South & Central Britain; North America. If considered conspecific with C. desiccatum the latter would be the correct name.
Key:
- Stems herbaceous; branchlets not bare and spinose at tips
- Flowers in racemes or panicles of heads usually <5mm across; perianth not turning red and succulent at fruiting
- Annual; stigmas <0.8mm
- Fruiting perianths wider than long, with horizontal seeds; inflorescence mealy or glabrous
- Leaves cuneate at unction with petiole
- Seeds with subacute to rounded unkeeled edges; tepals entire
- Leaves entire or at most with 1 obscure tooth or lobe on each side
- Leaves mealy-grey at least on lowerside; stems more or less terete to ridged
- Leaves linear to triangular-ovate, rarely ovate-trullate, the largest usually >2.5cm; tepals keeled abaxially; plant not stinking
- Leaves linear to linear-oblong, densely mealy-grey on lowerside, distinctly mucronate at apex, mostly with only 1(-2) pairs of lateral veins visible; petiole <1cm
Useful Links:
Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora