Chenopodium pumilio R. Br.                                                                                  =C. carinatum   Chenopodiaceae (Goosefoot Family)   Australia   Tasmanian Goosefoot

                                               May Photo

Plant Characteristics:  Annual, branched from base, glandular-villous, depressed or ascending, the branches 2-4 dm. long; lvs. oblong, or oblong-ovate, the blades 1-2 cm. long, or the uppermost reduced, coarsely sinuate-pinnatifid with obtuse lobes; petioles slender, from shorter than to longer than blades; fls. in short axillary clusters; stamen usually 1; calyx 0.6 mm. long, the lobes carinate, only partly enclosing the fr.; pericarp thin; seed vertical, 0.5 mm. broad.

Habitat:  Occasional weed, mostly below 5000 ft., through most of cismontane Calif.  June-Sept.

Name:  See other chenopods for the origin of the genus name.  Latin, pumilio, a pygmy.  (Jaeger 214).

General:  Uncommon in the study area and found in only one place; this at the end of Back Bay Dr. where it joins Eastbluff Dr.  (my comments).      A large genus, essentially cosmopolitan.  (Munz, Flora So. Calif. 359).

Text Ref:  Abrams Vol. II 72; Hickman, Ed. 510; Munz, Flora So. Calif. 364; Roberts 19.

Photo Ref:  May 1 87 # 22,23; June 88 # 18A.

Identity: by John Johnson.

First Found:  May 1987.

Computer Ref:  Plant Data 307

Have plant specimen.

Last edit 3/4/05

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