Oxybasis rubra

Oxybasis rubra^[2] (syn. Chenopodium rubrum), common names red goosefoot or coastblite goosefoot,^[3] is a member of the genus Oxybasis, a segregate of Chenopodium (the goosefoots). It is native to North America and Eurasia.^[3] It is an annual plant.^[4]

Oxybasis rubra
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Amaranthaceae
Genus:	Oxybasis
Species:	O. rubra
Binomial name
Oxybasis rubra (L.) S. Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch
Synonyms
Chenopodium rubrum L. Atriplex rubra (L.) Crantz Blitum polymorphum var. rubrum (L.) Beck Blitum rubrum (L.) Rchb. Botrys rubra (L.) Lunell Orthospermum rubrum (L.) Opiz Orthosporum rubrum (L.) T. Nees

Conservation status in the United States

It is listed a special concern and believed extirpated in Connecticut.^[5] It is listed as endangered in New Jersey, and as threatened in Maine, New Hampshire, and in New York.^[6]

Native American ethnobotany

The Goshute Shosone of Utah use the seeds for food.^[7] The name of the plant in the Goshute Shoshone language is on’-tǐm-pi-wa-tsǐp, on’-tǐm-pi-wa, on’-tǐm-pi-a-wa or on’-tǐm-pai-wa.^[8]