Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Red Goosefoot, Oxybasis rubra, Blonagán dearg
Photographs: Co. Cork and Co. Limerick

Red Goosefoot
Oxybasis rubra (Chenopodium rubrum)
Blonagán dearg
Family: Chenopodiaceae

Flowering: July-October. Annual. Native.

The compact flower spikes contain many flowers with 2-4 sepals and stamens. Leaves are variable but often strongly lobed and are scarcely mealy. A more or less branched, prostrate or erect, often red-tinged plant to 80cm. Very variable

Nutrient-rich, damp waste and cultivated ground, manure heaps, farm tracks, edges of water bodies. Identified by Paul Green, Co.Wexford

Red Goosefoot, Oxybasis rubra, Blonagán dearg

Red Goosefoot, Oxybasis rubra, Blonagán dearg
Red Goosefoot, Oxybasis rubra (Chenopodium rubrum), Blonagán dearg

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