Status: Exotic
Synonyms:
Blitum hastatum Rydberg
Chenopodium overi Aellen
Chenopodium capitatum var. parvicapitatum is an herb that grows in moist open areas in the mixed conifer upper elevation forest. The herbage is not malodorous. The leaf blades are wavy toothed. The leaves are green and glabrous. The flowers are in dense glomerules that are not subtended by leafy bracts for most of the inflorescence (as in C. foliosum) and have three greenish (usually reddish in C. foliosum) sepals. The seeds are vertically oriented in the perianth.
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Chenopodium capitatum var. parvicapitatum, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Leith Young, Richard Felger, Patrick Alexander, Ed & Dorea Gilbert, Mogollon Mtns., Redstone trailhead, September 13, 2009
Chenopodium capitatum var. parvicapitatum, inflorescence, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Leith Young, Richard Felger, Patrick Alexander, Ed & Dorea Gilbert, Mogollon Mtns., Redstone trailhead, September 13, 2009
Chenopodium capitatum var. parvicapitatum, leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Leith Young, Richard Felger, Patrick Alexander, Ed & Dorea Gilbert, Mogollon Mtns., Redstone trailhead, September 13, 2009
Chenopodium capitatum var. parvicapitatum, macro of single glomerule, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Leith Young, Richard Felger, Patrick Alexander, Ed & Dorea Gilbert, Mogollon Mtns., Redstone trailhead, September 13, 2009
Chenopodium capitatum var. parvicapitatum, macro of single glomerule, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Leith Young, Richard Felger, Patrick Alexander, Ed & Dorea Gilbert, Mogollon Mtns., Redstone trailhead, September 13, 2009
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