Chenopodium desertorum(J.M.Black) J.M.Black

Desert goosefootFrosted Goosefoot

WFO wfo-0000601228 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Chenopodium desertorum, photographed by Nina Kerr
fig. a Nina Kerr, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-03 / obs. 188049227
Chenopodium desertorum, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. b Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175542429
Chenopodium desertorum, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. c Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175542489
Chenopodium desertorum, photographed by Nina Kerr
fig. d Nina Kerr, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188049248
Chenopodium desertorum, photographed by Nina Kerr
fig. e Nina Kerr, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188049259
Chenopodium desertorum, photographed by Chris Lindorff
fig. f Chris Lindorff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73921430
Chenopodium desertorum, photographed by Chris Lindorff
fig. g Chris Lindorff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73921435
Chenopodium desertorum, photographed by Chris Lindorff
fig. h Chris Lindorff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73921440

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Chenopodium anidiophyllum Aellen
  • Chenopodium cochleariifolium Aellen
  • Chenopodium desertorum subsp. desertorum
  • Chenopodium microphyllum F.Muell.
  • Chenopodium microphyllum var. desertorum J.M.Black
  • Chenopodium pseudomicrophyllum Aellen
  • Chenopodium triandrum var. lanuginosum F.E.Havil.
  • Rhagodia prostrata A.Cunn. ex Benth.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.