Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Chenopodium erosum
Common name
Papery Goosefoot, Papery gooseneck
Family
Chenopodiacae
Where found
Woodland, heath, shrubland, grassland, disturbed sites, and near streams. Kosciuszko National Park. Rarely elsewhere. Appears to require fire for germination.
Notes
Annual herb to 1.5 m high, occasionally sprawling to prostrate. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4–20 cm long and 5-100 mm wide, thin, papery, green and hairless, margins raggedly toothed. Flowers bisexual at the tops of the stems, female lower down. Flowers slightly mealy when young, with 5 'petals' free from each other almost to the base, each 1.5–2 mm long Flowers in small to large clusters. Flowers Dec.–Feb. Seed cases membranous.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Chenopodium~erosum (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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