Chenopodiaceae Pollen Information Page
The Chenopod classification covers common weeds like pigweed (amaranth) and Russian Thistle, and common shrubs such as Fourwing Saltbrush and Greasewood. Worldwide there are over 1000 plants in the Chenopodiaceae family.
For more information on the Chenopodiaceae family please see:
- Desert Museum
- Botanical Dermatology Database
- For the State of New Mexico the USDA list 28 genera under Chenopodium.
Below is a list of chenopods that can grow in this area:
| Family | Genus | Common Name | |
| Chenopodiaceae | Allenrolfea | occidentalis | Iodinebush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | acanthocarpa | tubercled saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | argentea | silverscale saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | canescens | Fourwing Saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | confertifolia | Spiny Saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | corrugata | mat saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | cuneata | valley saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | elegans | wheelscale saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | garrettii | Garrett's saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | griffithsii | Griffiths' saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | hortensis | garden orache |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | neomexicana | New Mexico saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | obovata | mound saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | powellii | Powell's saltweed |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | prostrata | triangle orache |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | rosea | tumbling saltweed |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | saccaria | stalked or sack saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | semibaccata | Australian saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | serenana | bractscale |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | subspicata | saline saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | truncata | wedgescale saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Atriplex | wrightii | Wright's saltbush |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | albescens | desert goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | album | White goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | ambrosioides | Mexican Tea |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | atrovirens | pinyon goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | berlandieri | pitseed goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | botrys | Jerusalem Oak Goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | capitatum | blite or leafy goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | cycloides | sandhill goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | desiccatum | aridland or desert goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | foliosum | leafy goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | fremontii | Fremont's goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | glaucum | oakleaf goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | graveolens | fetid goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | hians | hians goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | hircinum | avian goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | incanum | mealy goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | leptophyllum | narrowleaf goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | murale | Nettle-leaved goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | neomexicanum | New Mexico goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | overi | Over's goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | pallescens | slimleaf goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | pratericola | desert goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | rubrum | red goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | salinum | Rocky Mountain goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | simplex | mapleleaf goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | standleyanum | Standley's goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Chenopodium | watsonii | Watson's goosefoot |
| Chenopodiaceae | Corispermum | hyssopifolium | American bugseed |
| Chenopodiaceae | Corispermum | orientale | hairy bugseed |
| Chenopodiaceae | Cycloloma | atriplicifolium | winged pigweed |
| Chenopodiaceae | Halogeton | glomeratus | saltlover |
| Chenopodiaceae | Kochia | americana | green molly |
| Chenopodiaceae | Kochia | prostrata | prostrate summercypress |
| Chenopodiaceae | Kochia | scoparia | Mexican-fireweed |
| Chenopodiaceae | Krascheninnikovia | lanata | Winter Fat |
| Chenopodiaceae | Monolepis | nuttalliana | Nuttall's povertyweed |
| Chenopodiaceae | Nitrophila | occidentalis | Western Miterwort |
| Chenopodiaceae | Proatriplex | pleiantha | Mancos shadscale |
| Chenopodiaceae | Salicornia | bigelovii | dwarf saltwort |
| Chenopodiaceae | Salicornia | rubra | red swampfire |
| Chenopodiaceae | Salsola | Kali | Russian thistle |
| Chenopodiaceae | Salsola | tragus | prickly Russian thistle |
| Chenopodiaceae | Sarcobatus | vermiculatus | Black Greasewood |
| Chenopodiaceae | Sarcocornia | utahensis | Utah swampfire |
| Chenopodiaceae | Suaeda | calceoliformis | Pursh Seepweed |
| Chenopodiaceae | Suaeda | moquinii | Mojave Seablite |
| Chenopodiaceae | Suaeda | suffrutescens | desert seepweed |
| Chenopodiaceae | Suckleya | suckleyana | poison suckleya |
| Chenopodiaceae | Zuckia | brandegeei | siltbush |
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