Hians Goosefoot

(Chenopodium hians)

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Description

Chenopodium hians is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common names hians goosefoot and gaping goosefoot. The Latin species name hians means "gaping".It is native to much of the western half of North America from British Columbia to California to Texas, where it grows in many types of open habitat, moist and dry, including disturbed areas such as roadsides.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Amaranthaceae
Genus:Chenopodium
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