Stinking Goosefoot Chenopodium vulvaria
Stinking Goosefoot (Oxybasis graveolens, formerly Chenopodium vulvaria) is a prostrate, mealy-leaved annual with a pungent, disagreeable smell that makes it unmistakable at close quarters. It is a nationally rare plant of disturbed ground, waste places, and the base of old walls, historically associated with village environments and rubble. In Suffolk, it has been recorded at scattered coastal and inland localities, though it is highly sporadic, and populations can disappear and reappear unpredictably. Its continued presence in the county depends on the persistence of the open, nutrient-enriched disturbed ground it favours – habitats increasingly lost to tidying and development. Image: © Andre H. NL, iNaturalist.
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Suffolk’s Priority Fern and Flowering Plant Species
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Listed as a conservation priority in Suffolk’s Biodiversity Action Plan.
Closely associated with Suffolk’s landscape and natural identity.
Identified as a key priority for recovery under Suffolk’s Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
Has a Species of the Month article attached.
