Ontario Weeds: Oak-leaved goosefoot
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Name: Oak-leaved goosefoot, Chenopodium
glaucum L.,
Other Names: chénopode glauque,
Saline goosefoot, ansérine glauque, C. salinum
Standl.
Family: Goosefoot Family (Chenopodiaceae)
General Description: Annual, reproducing
only by seed. Similar to Lamb's-quarters in general appearance
but much shorter, rarely exceeding 40cm (16in.) in height and
often prostrate or nearly so.
Oak-leaved goosefoot.
Leaves: Leaves alternate (1 per
node), generally smaller, up to 4cm (1-1/2in.) long, white on
the undersurface, green or sometimes slightly reddish on the
upper surface, shallowly and more or less uniformly round-toothed
around the margins.
Flowers & Fruit: Granular
clusters of tiny greenish flowers (later fruits) smaller and
forming short, irregular spikes in the axils of the upper leaves;
seeds dark brown. Flowers from July to September.
Habitat: Oak-leaved goosefoot
occurs throughout Ontario along roadsides and rights-of-way,
in pastures, waste places, edges of fields and gardens in situations
ranging from dry to moist soils and from very coarse gravels
to fine-textured clays, and is often the main weed in depressional
areas with saline soils.
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