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Oxybasis rubra
Also called Alkali Blite, Red Pigweed, Coast Blite, Coastblite Goosefoot
Red goosefoot is a variable annual weed of the amaranth family, native to North America and Eurasia, that germinates on bare mud left by drying winter floodwaters. It is an opportunistic plant of wet-then-dry disturbed ground rather than a garden ornamental.
Oxybasis rubra (until recently known as Chenopodium rubrum), red goosefoot, is an annual plant in the amaranth family. It is native to North America and Eurasia.
Red goosefoot grows in places where there was standing water during the winter, which dries out to leave bare mud on which the seeds germinate in the spring. It flowers and fruits from summer to early autumn. Its physical requirements are generally quite broad: typically it grows in full sunlight but it can tolerate light shade; although it often starts on wet ground, it often found on parched soils by summer; and in terms of nutrients, it grows on substrates as rich as farmyard dung heaps or as poor as mesotrophic lake margins. It is even tolerant of a wide range of salinity, from freshwater to saltmarsh. The only attribute for which it has a restricted range is pH, as it is not found on either strongly acid or calcareous soils.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oxybasis rubra 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.
