Chenopodium pratericola
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Chenopodium pratericola is a species of flowering plant in the goosefoot family
known by the common name desert goosefoot.
It is native to much of western and central North America, where it grows in many types of open habitat, such as sagebrush
, often on alkaline soils.
It is an annual herb growing up to 65 to 80 centimeters tall, sometimes branching. It is powdery in texture, especially on the leaves and flowers. The leaves are oval to lance-shaped and some are lobed. The inflorescence
s are located in leaf axils and in panicles at the end of the stem. Each is a small, dense cluster of tiny flowers.
Chenopodium
Chenopodium is a genus of about 150 species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoots, which occur almost anywhere in the world. It is placed in the family Amaranthaceae in the APG II system; older classifications separate it and its relatives as Chenopodiaceae, but...
known by the common name desert goosefoot.
It is native to much of western and central North America, where it grows in many types of open habitat, such as sagebrush
Sagebrush
Sagebrush is a common name of a number of shrubby plant species in the genus Artemisia native to western North America;Or, the sagebrush steppe ecoregion, having one or more kinds of sagebrush, bunchgrasses and others;...
, often on alkaline soils.
It is an annual herb growing up to 65 to 80 centimeters tall, sometimes branching. It is powdery in texture, especially on the leaves and flowers. The leaves are oval to lance-shaped and some are lobed. The inflorescence
Inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Strictly, it is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified...
s are located in leaf axils and in panicles at the end of the stem. Each is a small, dense cluster of tiny flowers.