Photos: Co.Limerick & Co.Cork

Red Goosefoot Chenopodium rubrum Blonagán dearg Family: Chenopodiaceae Flowering: July-October. Annual. Native. Compact flower spike. Many flowers with only 2-4 sepals and stamens. Leaves variable, often strongly lobed. Plant often red-tinged, scarcely mealy. More/less branched, prostrate or erect plant. To 80cm. Very variable. Nutrient-rich, damp waste and cultivated ground, manure heaps, farm tracks, edges of water bodies. Local or rare but increasing, mainly E and central Ireland. Identification Paul Green, Co.Wexford

    
Red Goosefoot. Ballingeary, Co.Cork. 2006. Red Goosefoot. Foynes, Co.Limerick. 2007