Coastal Goosefoot (Chenopodium littoreum)

Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Amaranthaceae
State: CA
Nature Serve ID: 865014
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Where is Coastal Goosefoot (Chenopodium littoreum) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Coastal Goosefoot can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Coastal Goosefoot (Chenopodium littoreum)?

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Assigned 12/24/21

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Conservation Actions

Center for Plant Conservation

12/17/2021

In "Chenopodium littoreum (Chenopodiaceae), a New Goosefoot from Dunes of South-Central Coastal California", published in Madroño, 2010, authors Benet-Pierce and Simpson describe how Chenopodium littoreum had been incorrectly assigned as C. carnosulum in the past, and describe how taxonomic differences between the two lead to it being reassigned as a new species.