Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dysphania carinata
Common name
Keeled Goosefoot, Green Crumbweed
Family
Chenopodiaceae
Where found
Weed of gardens and waste places. Along streams. Coast and ranges, mainly Sydney area. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Annual or short-lived perennial herb to 0.55m high or prostrate. Aromatic, covered with glandular and other hairs. Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.9-3 cm long, 3–14 mm wide, margins often wavy. Flowers bisexual or female, about 1 mm in diameter. 'Petals' 5, free to the base, keeled or inflated upwards, fringed with coarse hairs along the keel, often spoon-shaped. Flowers in few- to many-flowered clusters.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dysphania~carinata (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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