Many-seeded Goosefoot - Lipandra polysperma

Alternative names
All Seed
Description

Short to tall erect to spreading plant with squarish ridged stems, leaves sometimes reddish, untoothed but occasionally with an angle on one or both sides. Flowers in long lax spikes, leafy, branched below

Similar Species

Other goosefoots

Identification difficulty
ID checklist (your specimen should have all of these features)

Leaves entire, green or reddish on both surfaces; not mealy.

Recording advice

A photograph of the whole plant, including leaves

Habitat

Cultivated land, particularly amongst arable crops, waste places.

When to see it

July to October.

Life History

Annual.

UK Status

Found mainly in England north to the Humber, and in west Wales.

VC55 Status

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 83 of the 617 tetrads.

Leicestershire & Rutland Map

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Species profile

Common names
Many-seeded Goosefoot
Species group:
Wildflowers
Kingdom:
Plantae
Order:
Caryophyllales
Family:
Amaranthaceae
Records on NatureSpot:
32
First record:
31/07/2006 (Calow, Graham)
Last record:
21/09/2022 (Calow, Graham)

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