Common Name: GOOSEFOOT FAMILY Habit: Annual to shrub; hairs simple, stellate, or glandular; plants in several genera scaly, mealy, or powdery from collapsed glands; monoecious, dioecious, with bisexual flowers, or with both bisexual and unisexual flowers. Stem: occasionally fleshy. Leaf: blade simple, generally alternate, occasionally fleshy or reduced to scales, veins pinnate; stipules 0. Inflorescence: raceme, spike, catkin-like, spheric head, axillary clusters of flowers, or flowers 1; bracts 0--5, herbaceous, generally persistent or strongly modified in fruit, wings, tubercles or spines present or 0. Flower: bisexual or unisexual, small, generally green; calyx parts (1)3--5, or 0 in pistillate flowers, free or fused basally (or +- throughout), leaf-like in texture, membranous, or fleshy, deciduous or not, often strongly modified in fruit; corolla 0; stamens 1--5, opposite sepals, filaments free, equal; anthers 4-chambered; ovary superior (1/2-inferior), chamber 1; ovule 1; styles, stigmas 1--4 (or stigmas sessile). Fruit: achene or utricle, generally falling with persistent calyx or bracts. Seed: 1, small, lenticular to spheric; seed coat smooth to finely dotted, warty, net-like, or prickly, margin occasionally winged. Genera In Family: 100 genera, 1500 species: worldwide, especially deserts, saline or alkaline soils; some cultivated for food (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris, beet, Swiss chard; Spinacia oleracea L., spinach; Chenopodium quinoa Willd., quinoa); and some worldwide, naturalized ruderal or noxious agricultural weeds. Note:Nitrophila treated in Amaranthaceae, Sarcobatus treated in Sarcobataceae. Key to genera revised by Elizabeth H. Zacharias to incorporate Extriplex and Stutzia, 2 genera segregated from Atriplex. Native spp. of Kochia now treated in Neokochia. Chenopodiaceae often treated now within a more broadly circumscribed Amaranthaceae (Morales-Briones et al. 2021). eFlora Treatment Author: Mihai Costea, family description, key to genera, revised by Thomas J. Rosatti & Elizabeth H. Zacharias, except as noted Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin, David J. Keil, Thomas J. Rosatti, Margriet Wetherwax.
Habit: Annual, generally hairy. Stem: axis generally erect; branches ascending to erect. Leaf: linear to lanceolate, reduced distally. Inflorescence: spike; bracts leaf-like; flowers 1--few per axil. Flower: generally bisexual; calyx lobes 5, incurved, hooked-spiny, tubercled, or winged in fruit; stamens generally 5; stigmas generally 2. Fruit: +- depressed-spheric. Seed: horizontal. Etymology: (Ferdinando Bassi, Italian botanist, 1710--1774) eFlora Treatment Author: G. Frederic Hrusa & Dieter H. Wilken Reference: Kadereit & Freitag 2011 Taxon 60:51--78
Bassia scoparia (L.) A.J. Scott
NATURALIZED Habit: Plant generally 20--120 cm. Leaf: 8--50 mm, 1--6 mm wide, flat, glabrous or appressed- to appressed-spreading-hairy, generally 3--5-veined below middle. Inflorescence: branched spike, short- to densely long-hairy, hairs < to > flowers; flowers 1--7 per axil; hairs generally hiding flowers in immature inflorescence. Flower: calyx glabrous to thinly appressed-hairy, lobe margins generally bristly (glabrous); bisexual flowers with tubercles or wings < 2 mm in fruit. Ecology: Disturbed places, fields, roadsides; Elevation: < 2300 m. Bioregional Distribution: CaR, SN, GV, n SnFrB, SCo, SnBr, GB, D; Distribution Outside California: to eastern United States; native to Eurasia. Flowering Time: Aug--Nov Note: Immature plants much like Bassia hyssopifolia (Pall.) Kuntze. If recognized taxonomically, a cultivated form with linear to thread-like leaves, short internodes, inflorescence hairs < flowers, rarely escaping in SnJV, SCo (expected elsewhere), assignable to Bassia scoparia subsp. culta (Voss) J.R. Nebot, A De la Torre, G. Mateo & F. Alcaraz. Other subspecies in Eurasia. Unabridged Synonyms: Bassia scoparia var. culta Voss; Bassia scoparia subsp. culta (Voss) J.R. Nebot, A De la Torre, G. Mateo & F. Alcaraz; Kochia iranica Bornm., misappl.; Kochia scoparia subsp. culta (Voss) O. Bolòs & Vigo; Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad. subsp. scoparia; Kochia scoparia var. subvillosa Moq.; Kochia scoparia f. trichophylla (Voss) Schinz & Thell.; Kochia trichophylla Voss Jepson eFlora Author: G. Frederic Hrusa & Dieter H. Wilken Reference: Kadereit & Freitag 2011 Taxon 60:51--78 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) View the CDFA Pest Rating page for Bassia scoparia Weed listed by Cal-IPC Previous taxon: Bassia hyssopifolia Next taxon: Beta
Citation for this treatment: G. Frederic Hrusa & Dieter H. Wilken 2022, Bassia scoparia, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 11, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=80290, accessed on November 08, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on November 08, 2024.
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CaR, SN, GV, n SnFrB, SCo, SnBr, GB, D
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