Photographs: Co. Cork and Co. Limerick

Red Goosefoot Oxybasis rubra (Chenopodium rubrum) Blonagán dearg Family: Chenopodiaceae Flowering: July-October. Annual. Native. The compact flower spikes contain many flowers with 2-4 sepals and stamens. Leaves are variable but often strongly lobed and are scarcely mealy. A more or less branched, prostrate or erect, often red-tinged plant to 80cm. Very variable Nutrient-rich, damp waste and cultivated ground, manure heaps, farm tracks, edges of water bodies. Identified by Paul Green, Co.Wexford

Red Goosefoot, Oxybasis rubra (Chenopodium rubrum), Blonagán dearg