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Chenopodium incognitum
Also called Hians Goosefoot, Hian's Goosefoot, Pinyon Goosefoot
Gaping Goosefoot is a wild annual herb of western North America, growing 30–120 cm tall with narrow, mealy leaves and dense flower spikes. It is a native weed of dry open ground and is not grown as a garden or houseplant.
Chenopodium incognitum is a species of annual flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is difficult to tell apart from Chenopodium hians and Chenopodium atrovirens is often synonymized with one of those species by botanical authorities.
According to POWO Chenopodium incognitum is native to and grows from the Yukon Territory in the north south all the way to New Mexico. Including the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan in Canada. In the United States it grows in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chenopodium incognitum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
