CHENOPODIACEAE

GOOSEFOOT FAMILY

The plants of the Goosefoot Family are herbs or shrubs, often succulent or scurfy, with simple alternate leaves.  The flowers are small, greenish and lack petals.  Members of this family are widely distributed, preferring for the most part saline soils near the ocean or on deserts.  Beets and spinach belong to this family, but so do the troublesome Pigweeds, Russian Thistle and Lambs Quarters. (Dale 94).

About 100 genera and 1400 species, world wide; many are weeds; some such as beets and spinach, are grown as vegetables.  (Munz, Flora So. Calif. 351).

Upper Newport Bay species within the family:

Aphanisma blitoides #                                        

Atriplex canescens ssp. canescens #                     

Arthrocnemum subterminalis #

Atriplex glauca                                 

Atriplex lentiformis ssp. lentiformis #       

Atriplex rosea                                             

Atriplex semibaccata                                 

Atriplex serenana var. davidsonii #           

Atriplex serenana var. serenana #     

Atriplex rhagodioides                                            

Atriplex triangularis #                          

Atriplex watsonii #                                     

Bassia hyssopifolia                                                                  

Beta vulgaris                                              

Beta vulgaris var. cicla                               

Chenopodium album                                 

Chenopodium ambrosioides

Chenopodium berlandieri #

Chenopodium californicum #     

Chenopodium macrospermum var. halophilum 

Chenopodium murale

Chenopodium pumilio

Chenopodium rubrum

Cycloloma atriplicifolium 

Kochia californica # 

Salicornia bigelovii # 

Salicornia virginica # 

Salsola tragus          

Suaeda calceoliformis #

Suaeda esteroa # 

Suaeda taxifolia #