Meanings
- pluralplural of goosefoot
Consequently Goosefoots are often found in salt marshes, or in desert areas where water collects and then evaporates, leaving salts in the soil.
2000, Kristin Quinlan, Identifying Plants by Family and Genus, page 1082 more examples
For example, asparagus, the Russian thistle, the atriplexes, some of the goosefoots, and some of the grasses, such as Distichlis spicata, Spartina gracilis, and finetop salt-grass, thrive in a saline soil, where most other plants could not live.
1905, Bernard B. Smyth, “Physical properties of water, and its relation to tree growth”, in Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, volume XIX, page 422The pioneering annuals on the beaches nearby are wind-pollinated, like the goosefoots and dropseeds, or somewhat capable of self-pollination as the wild tomatoes can be when pollinators are scarce.
1996, Stephen L. Buchmann, Gary Paul Nabhan, The Forgotten Pollinators, page 29
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