EcoFlora - Chenopodium berlandieri var. zschackei

Chenopodium berlandieri var. zschackei (Murr) Murr ex Gräben.
Family: Amaranthaceae Zschack's Goosefoot, more...Zschack's goosefoot [Chenopodium acerifolium Andrz., more]	FNA vPlants Indiana Flora Resources Steven E. Clemants & Sergei L. Mosyakin in Flora of North America (vol. 4) Leaf blades deltate or rhombic, 1.7-4 cm, 3-lobed, margins usually toothed above basal lobes. Inflorescences erect, with leafy bracts. Styles with yellow area at base. Seeds 1.2-1.5 mm diam. Fruiting fall. Yards, flower beds, highways, oceanic bluffs, sandy washes; 0-2200 m; Alta., B.C., Man., N.W.T., Ont., Que., Sask., Yukon; Alaska, Ariz., Ark., Calif., Colo., Fla., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., La., Mass., Minn., Mo., Nebr., Nev., N.Mex., N.C., N.Dak., Ohio, Okla., Oreg., Pa., S.C., S.Dak., Tex., Utah, Wash., W.Va., Wis., Wyo. The Morton Arboretum Annual herb 10 cm - 1 m tall Stem: white-mealy to a varying degree. Leaves: alternate, stalked, 1.7 - 4 cm long, diamond-shaped or triangular, three-lobed, toothed above basal lobes, white-mealy to a varying degree. Inflorescence: a dense, irregularly rounded cluster of flowers (glomerule), which together form an upright spike with leafy bracts. Flowers: greenish, small, with five nearly distinct sepals and no petals. Sepals broadly wing-keeled, white-mealy. Stamens five. Styles with yellow at the base. Stigmas two. Fruit: one-seeded (achene or utricle), sometimes enclosed in the persistent, incurved sepals, light yellowish around style, depressed egg-shaped, thin-walled. Wall (pericarp) not closely fitting to the seed, honeycomb-like. Seed brown, 1 - 1.5 mm wide, round, round-margined, honeycomb-like. Similar species: No information at this time. Flowering: late June to mid-October Habitat and ecology: Introduced from Europe. A weed of cultivated and waste ground. Occurence in the Chicago region: non-native Etymology: Chenopodium comes from the Greek words chen, meaning goose, and podion, meaning "little foot," referring to the leaf shape of some species. Berlandieri is named after Jean Louis Berlandier (1805-1851), the botanist who discovered the species. Author: The Morton Arboretum From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam This species and the following [Chenopodium bushianum] are characterized by the peculiar alveolar depressions of their seeds, distinguishing them well from other species. The whole group however is quite polymorphic. Indiana Coefficient of Conservatism: C = 0 Wetland Indicator Status:
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