Reprinted with permission from the New Britton and 

 Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United 

 States and Adjacent Canada. Vol. 2, page 502, 

 Copyright 1952, The New York Botanical Garden. 



CHENOPODIUM SUBGLABRUM 

 SMOOTH GOOSEFOOT 



Smooth Goosefoot is an annual with erect, simple, or highly stems 2-3 (8) dm high. The alternate leaves are linear with 

 entire margins, single veined, glabrous, up to 3 cm long. Flowers are small, green, and grouped m remote clusters on 

 the branched stem. Each flower lacks petals but has 5 glabrous sepals and 5 stamens. The 1 -seeded fruit is compressed 

 hemispheric and is relatively large; 1-2 mm across, exposing a jet-black fruit at maturity that readily separates from the 

 pericarp (fruit wall). 



Fruiting in early July. 



CHENOPODIUM SUBGLABRUM sometimes occurs with and is related to C. LEPTOPHYLLUM. They both have 

 linear single-veined leaves but the latter are farinose white. CHENOPODIUM LEPTOPHYLLUM also has densely 

 clustered glomerules, a relatively unbranched growth form, fruits usually 1 mm or smaller, and seeds which do not 

 detach from the pericarp. 



