Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Chenopodium glaucum

Stems with seed cases. Photographer Don Wood, Barragoot Lake south of Bermagui

Stem with seed cases. Photographer Kevin Sparrow, near Warnambool, Vic

Line drawings. Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 10. USDA NRCS PLANTS Database

Common name

 Glaucous Goosefoot

Family

Chenopodiacae

Where found

Disturbed sites, and saltmarsh and coastal lake margins. Coast and tablelands. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Annual herb to about 0.5 m high or sprawling to prostrate. Leaves often fleshy, alternating up the stems, 1-6 cm long, 8–30 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface densely mealy, margins entire, or toothed, wavy, or irregularly lobed. Flowers at the ends of the side branches mostly bisexual, with 3-5 'petals'. Flowers lower down female or bisexual,  usually with 3 'petals'. Flowers clustered. Flowers Dec.–May.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Chenopodium~glaucum (accessed 7 January, 2021)