Dysphania cristata |
Dysphania carinata |
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crested glandular-goosefoot, crested goosefoot |
keel wormseed |
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Stems | prostrate, branched, 3–5 dm, pilose and glandular-pilose, or with sessile glands. |
erect to ascending, branched, 3–5.5 dm, pilose with glandular trichomes or sessile glands. |
Leaves | aromatic; petiole 0.7–1 cm; blade ovate or elliptic, 1.3–2.1 × 1.1–1.5 cm, reduced somewhat in inflorescence, base cuneate, apex obtuse, glandular-pubescent. |
aromatic; petiole 0.5–1.4 cm; blade ovate to broadly ovate, 0.9–1.6 × 0.8–1.4 cm, somewhat reduced in inflorescence, base cuneate to truncate, apex acute, glandular-puberulose and pilosulose on veins. |
Inflorescences | axillary glomerules; glomerules subglobose, 4–6 mm diam.; bracts similar to cauline leaves, elliptic, reduced to 0.8 mm, margins crenate-dentate, apex obtuse. |
axillary glomerules; glomerules subglobose, 1.5–2.5 mm diam.; bracts leaflike, ovate, 3–5 mm, margins crenate-dentate, apex acute. |
Flowers | perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base, distinct portions elliptic to oblong, strongly keeled, 1.8–1.9 × 0.3–0.5 mm, apex acuminate, fimbriate and hirsute, pubescent with septate hairs, hardly enclosing fruit, becoming white, strongly crested and 5-winged vertically, rostrate, semiorbiculate, and cartilaginous in fruit; stamen 1; stigmas 2. |
perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base, distinct portions narrow-oblong, prominently keeled especially apically, 0.8–0.9 × 0.3–0.4 mm, apex acute, not crested, covered with septate hairs, becoming coriaceous and white in fruit; stamens absent or 1; stigmas 2. |
Achenes | ovoid; pericarp adherent, membranaceous, slightly rugose and papillate. |
ovoid; pericarp adherent, membranaceous, slightly rugose. |
Seeds | reddish brown, ovoid, 0.6–0.7 × 0.5–0.6 mm, margins slightly keeled over radicle and grooved over cotyledons; seed coat smooth. |
reddish brown, ovoid, 0.6 × 0.3–0.4 mm, margins keeled over radicle and channeled over cotyledons; seed coat smooth. |
Dysphania cristata |
Dysphania carinata |
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Phenology | Fruiting summer. | Fruiting fall. |
Habitat | Wool waste areas | Waste areas on roadsides, sandy soils |
Elevation | 10 m (0 ft) | 10-100 m (0-300 ft) |
Distribution |
SC; Australia [Introduced in North America] |
AL; AR; TX; native to Australia [Introduced in North America] |
Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 275. | FNA vol. 4, p. 274. |
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Synonyms | Blitum cristatum | Chenopodium carinatum |
Name authority | (F. Mueller) Mosyakin & Clemants: Ukrayins’k. Bot. Zhurn., n. s. 59: 382. (2002) | (R. Brown) Mosyakin & Clemants: Ukrayins’k. Bot. Zhurn., n. s. 59: 382. (2002) |
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