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Nitre Goosefoot

Chenopodium nitrariaceum

Nitre Goosefoot
Photo: Russell Best, CC BY 4.0
Family
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth & beet family)
Grows as
Shrub, Perennial
Native range
C. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Chenopodium nitrariaceum commonly known as the nitre goosefoot, is a flowering shrub in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a spiny perennial with greyish leaves and small flowers.

Where it grows

Nitre goosefoot grows on clay, clay-loam, stony situations on flood plains, wetter areas and sand plains in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Other Chenopodium plants

Fat-hen · Pinyon goosefoot · Golden Goosefoot · Coastal Saltbush · Chenopodium benthamii · Pitseed goosefoot · Seaberry Saltbush · Cottony Saltbush · Sandhill goosefoot · Frosted Goosefoot · Aridland goosefoot · New Zealand fish-guts plant

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chenopodium nitrariaceum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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