Common Name

Red Crumbweed

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Notes

Annual or short lived perennial forb, prostrate. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.4-1cm long, 2-4mm wide, flat, hairless, with rounded tips. Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), in clusters of 10-30 at the bases of the leaves.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 264

PlantNET description with line drawings and photo of dried plants: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dysphania~littoralis