Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Chenopodium hians [Chenopodium incognitum]
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
- CommonName
- hians goosefoot, gaping goosefoot
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1971
- LatestDate
- 1971
- Ecosystem
- foothill, montane
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch
- Counties
- Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. The Watershed has only one record of hians goosefoot, from the La Garitas west of Saguache, 1971. (It was first determined as Chenopodium leptophyllum but re-determined as C. hians by Ackerfield in 2007. Weber and Wittmann say it is a Plains plant, but that is not borne out by distributions in Ackerfield and BONAP. There are scattered locations in most USA states west of the Great Plains. There are also records from Taos and Rio Arriba counties in New Mexico, bordering Colorado, with an isolated location in the Big Bend country of Texas. Difficulties in determination of Chenopodium hians are well known. .C. hians could easily key out to C. atrovirens save for the fact that its seed surface is minutely tuberculate whereas that of C. atrovirens is rugose (wrinkled). Alternately it would key out to C. dessicatum save for its larger leaf-like bracts around the iflorescence.
- Annotation