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Chenopodium berlandieri var. berlandieri

Chenopodium berlandieri Moq. var. berlandieri

Pitseed Goosefoot, Berlandier's Goosefoot

Chenopodiaceae (Goosefoot Family)

USDA Symbol: CHBEB2
USDA Native Status: L48 (N)







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Specimen & Label Data

Chenopodium berlandieri var. berlandieri

Pitseed Goosefoot

Chenopodiaceae

Location: 500 m E of Harry Wurzbach Dr. & on edge of sidewalk on N side of S Oakwell Farms Pky--Oakwell Farms, San Antonio.
Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Full sun. Level, alluvial soil. Several colonies. Among various Poaceae.

Description: Annual; heavily taprooted plus many fiberous roots, erect to 7 dm; striate, w/ascending branches (cutover). Leaves alternate, petiolate, rhombic-ovate, to 3+ cm long, nearly as broad, smaller above, acute to rounded apically, coarsely dentate distally. Inflorescence spicate in glomerules from upper axils; densely farinose. Seed 1 mm broad, black, punctate.

County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Oct 10, 1994
Specimen number: 697

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0991
Accession Date: Jan 24, 1995
Accession Number: 78

Annotations: (In flower and fruit)

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