Oxybasis rubra (L.) S.Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch is a plant in the Amaranthaceae family, order Caryophyllales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Oxybasis rubra (L.) S.Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch

Oxybasis rubra (L.) S.Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch

Oxybasis rubra, commonly red goosefoot, is an annual plant native to North America and Eurasia in genus Oxybasis.

Family
Genus
Oxybasis
Order
Caryophyllales
Class
Magnoliopsida
⚠️ Toxicity Note

Insufficient toxicity evidence; avoid direct contact and ingestion.

About Oxybasis rubra (L.) S.Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch

Oxybasis rubra (L.) S.Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch, synonymized as Chenopodium rubrum, has the common names red goosefoot or coastblite goosefoot. This species belongs to the genus Oxybasis, which is a segregate genus separated from Chenopodium, the goosefoot genus. It is native to North America and Eurasia, and it grows as an annual plant.

Photo: (c) Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky) · cc-by

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Caryophyllales Amaranthaceae Oxybasis

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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