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|accepted_name=Chenopodium californicum
|accepted_authority=(S. Watson) S. Watson in W. H. Brewer et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. H. Brewer et al., Bo t. California
|place=2: 48. 1880
|year=1880
}}
|common_names=California goosefoot;soap plant
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Blitum californicum
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=9: 10. 1874
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Chenopodium;Chenopodium subg. Blitum;Chenopodium sect. Agathophytum;Chenopodium californicum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chenopodium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Chenopodium subg. Blitum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Chenopodium sect. Agathophytum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chenopodium californicum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 276
|treatment_page=page 279
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>erect to ascending, branched at apex of taproot, 2.5–8 dm, somewhat viscid and farinose. <b>Leaves</b> nonaromatic; petiole 1–12 cm; blade triangular, 4.5–10 × 3–9 cm, base truncate to cordate, margins sinuate-dentate, apex acute to acuminate, sparsely farinose. <b>Inflorescences</b>: dense glomerules sessile on terminal spikes; spikes 5–19 cm; glomerules 3–5 mm diam., flowers developing at about same time; bracts leaflike, subtending lower glomerules, absent for over 1/2 inflorescence, triangular, broadly hastate, 1–3.5 × 0.8–4 cm, apex acuminate, base truncate to hastate, sparsely farinose. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth segments connate into 0.5–0.9 mm tube, lobes oblong or elliptic, 0.6–0.9(–1.1) × 0.4–1.2 mm, apex obtuse, rounded or truncate, scarcely abaxially keeled throughout, glabrous, not covering fruit at maturity; stamens (4–)5; stigmas 2. <b>Achenes</b> obovoid; pericarp adherent, ± smooth. <b>Seeds</b> obovoid or rotund, 1.5–2 mm in diam., margins rounded; seed coat black, rugose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–fall (winter).
|habitat=Dry to moist slopes, ledges, plains, yellow-pine forests, yucca-juniper woodlands, chaparral and under oaks and willows
|elevation=30-1500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
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name=Chenopodium californicum
|authority=(S. Watson) S. Watson in W. H. Brewer et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Blitum californicum
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–fall (winter).
|habitat=Dry to moist slopes, ledges, plains, yellow-pine forests, yucca-juniper woodlands, chaparral and under oaks and willows
|elevation=30-1500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. H. Brewer et al., Bo t. California
|publication year=1880
|special status=
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|genus=Chenopodium
|subgenus=Chenopodium subg. Blitum
|section=Chenopodium sect. Agathophytum
|species=Chenopodium californicum
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