Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to the Great Plains, Great Lakes Region, and Atlantic Coast.
Habitat: Moist, saline soils.
Flowers: July-October
Origin: Both native and introduced
Growth Duration: Annual
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Glandless annual, the stems spreading to erect, freely branched, 1-5 dm. tall, mostly glabrous.
Leaves alternate, green on both surfaces without mealy excrescence, often becoming reddish-tinged, the blades sub-entire to deeply dentate, deltoid- or rhombic-ovate, 1.5-6 cm. long, narrowed abruptly to a slender petiole shorter or longer than the blade.
Flowers sessile and tightly clustered in short, simple axillary spikes and a freely compounded terminal spike; perianth cleft to about the middle, the 3-5 lobes ovate, rounded.
Fruits oval in outline, strongly compressed, 0.8-1 mm. long.
Publication: Willdenowia 42(1): 15. 2012.
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var. humilis – marshland goosefoot
Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to the Great Plains, Great Lakes Region, and Atlantic Coast. -
var. rubra – red goosefoot Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to the Great Plains, Great Lakes Region, and Atlantic Coast.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Oxybasis rubra in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Oxybasis rubra checklist entry
OregonFlora: Oxybasis rubra information
E-Flora BC: Oxybasis rubra atlas page
CalPhotos: Oxybasis rubra photos
