''Chenopodium pratericola'' is a species of flowering plant in the goosefoot family known by the common name desert goosefoot. It is native to much of western and central North America, where it grows in many types of open habitat, such as

sagebrush Sagebrush is the common name of several woody and herbaceous species of plants in the genus '' Artemisia''. The best known sagebrush is the shrub '' Artemisia tridentata''. Sagebrushes are native to the North American west. Following is an al ...

, often on

alkaline soils Alkali, or Alkaline, soils are clay soils with high pH (greater than 8.5), a poor soil structure and a low infiltration capacity. Often they have a hard calcareous layer at 0.5 to 1 metre depth. Alkali soils owe their unfavorable physico- ...

. It is an annual herb growing up to 65 to 80 centimeters tall, sometimes branching. It is powdery in texture, especially on the leaves and flowers. The leaves are oval to lance-shaped and some are lobed. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...

s are located in leaf axils and in panicles at the end of the stem. Each is a small, dense cluster of tiny flowers.

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Jepson Manual TreatmentUSDA Plants ProfileFlora of North America
pratericola Flora of the Western United States Flora of the United States Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Flora of the Rocky Mountains Flora of California Flora of the Great Basin Flora of the California desert regions Flora of New Jersey Flora of Alabama Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Amaranthaceae-stub