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§1 Plant
Chenopodium rubrum L.
vernacular red goosefoot — species · Chenopodiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Chenopodiaceae Vent.
- Genus
- Chenopodium
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 216 counties across 26 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 52 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 80 min.
- Precipitation
- 20–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8.5
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Red
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 7,566,666
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 216 counties across 26 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 3 N ▾
California view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Big Stone 27011
- Brown 27015
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Clay 27027
- Cottonwood 27033
- Douglas 27041
- Kandiyohi 27067
- Kittson 27069
- Lac qui Parle 27073
- Lincoln 27081
- Mahnomen 27087
- Marshall 27089
- Murray 27101
- Norman 27107
- Otter Tail 27111
- Pipestone 27117
- Polk 27119
- Ramsey 27123
- Roseau 27135
- St. Louis 27137
- Stevens 27149
- Traverse 27155
- Wilkin 27167
Missouri view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 15 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Barnes 38003
- Benson 38005
- Bottineau 38009
- Burke 38013
- Burleigh 38015
- Cass 38017
- Divide 38023
- Eddy 38027
- Emmons 38029
- Foster 38031
- Golden Valley 38033
- Grant 38037
- Kidder 38043
- Logan 38047
- McHenry 38049
- McIntosh 38051
- Morton 38059
- Mountrail 38061
- Nelson 38063
- Ramsey 38071
- Ransom 38073
- Rolette 38079
- Sargent 38081
- Steele 38091
- Stutsman 38093
- Traill 38097
- Ward 38101
- Williams 38105
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CHRU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7751130 ↗Record version
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