Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, between Hillston and Booligal, NSW

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, between Hillston and Booligal, NSW

Shrub. Photo: Chris Lindorf, Ned's Corner Station, Lake Culluleraine, Vic

Common Name

Nitre Goosefoot

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Notes

Shrub to 2.5m tall. Spine tipped branches and branchlets. Leaves thick, alternating along the stem or in clusters. Leaves 0.5-5cm long, usually to 5mm wide, flat, sparsely mealy, with entire edges and blunt tips. Male and female flowers on different plants or on the same plant. Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), unisexual or bisexual, in spine-tipped panicles or short spikes at the ends of the branches.

Description and photo in GM Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and JH Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 261

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Chenopodium~nitrariaceum