Oxybasis rubra

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Oxybasis rubra

Oxybasis rubra[2] (syn. Chenopodium rubrum), common names red goosefoot or coastblite goosefoot,[3] is a member of the genus Oxybasis, a segregate of Chenopodium (the goosefoots). It is native to North America and Eurasia.[3] It is an annual plant.[4]

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Oxybasis rubra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Oxybasis
Species:
O. rubra
Binomial name
Oxybasis rubra
(L.) S. Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch
Synonyms
  • Chenopodium rubrum L.
  • Atriplex rubra (L.) Crantz
  • Blitum polymorphum var. rubrum (L.) Beck
  • Blitum rubrum (L.) Rchb.
  • Botrys rubra (L.) Lunell
  • Orthospermum rubrum (L.) Opiz
  • Orthosporum rubrum (L.) T. Nees
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Conservation status in the United States

It is listed a special concern and believed extirpated in Connecticut.[5] It is listed as endangered in New Jersey, and as threatened in Maine, New Hampshire, and in New York.[6]

Native American ethnobotany

The Goshute Shosone of Utah use the seeds for food.[7] The name of the plant in the Goshute Shoshone language is on’-tǐm-pi-wa-tsǐp, on’-tǐm-pi-wa, on’-tǐm-pi-a-wa or on’-tǐm-pai-wa.[8]

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