Flora of North America species comparison

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Dysphania multifida

cut-leaf glandular-goosefoot, cut-leaf goosefoot, many-cleft goosefoot, small-leaf worm-seed
Habit Plants perennial (possibly annual in some parts of its range).
Stems

prostrate or ascending, much-branched, 1.5–7 dm, densely puberulent.
Leaves

nonaromatic;

petiole absent or indistinguishable from blade;

blade oblong to elliptic, 0.6–4.5 × 0.1–1(–2) cm, base narrowly cuneate, margins deeply and irregularly pinnatifid with narrow, linear lobes, sometimes only dentate, apex acute to obtuse, glandular-pubescent abaxially.
Inflorescences

lateral glomerules 1.8–3.5 mm diam.;

bracts similar to cauline leaves.
Flowers

perianth segments (4–)5, connate for most of their length, urceolate, tube with distinct reticulate veins, distinct portion 0.1–0.5 mm, margins dentate, apex rounded to broadly acute, accrescent and coriaceous with age, enclosing fruit;

stamens 5;

stigmas (2–)3(–5).
Achenes

obovoid;

pericarp loosely adherent, membranaceous, with many yellow glandular hairs near apex, otherwise smooth.
Seeds

vertical, suborbicular to ovoid, 0.8–1.3 × 0.8–1 mm;

seed coat smooth.

Dysphania multifida
Phenology Fruiting mid summer–late fall.
Habitat Waste ground, sandy shores and ballast dumps near coast
Elevation 0-700 m (0-2300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; FL; GA; MA; NJ; NY; OR; PA; SC; VA; South America [Introduced in North America; introduced widely throughout the tropical and warm-temperate regions of world]
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Source FNA vol. 4, p. 271.
Parent taxa Chenopodiaceae > Dysphania > sect. Adenois
Sibling taxa
D. ambrosioides, D. anthelmintica, D. aristata, D. botrys, D. carinata, D. chilensis, D. cristata, D. graveolens, D. pumilio
Synonyms Chenopodium multifidum, Roubieva multifida, Teloxys multifida
Name authority (Linnaeus) Mosyakin & Clemants: Ukrayins’k. Bot. Zhurn., n. s. 59: 382. (2002)
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