Plant facts ²

● Endemic to the Hawaian Islands
● Also known as aheoheo and Hawaiian Goosefoot
● Related to quinoa
● Seed banks existed in the Kanaha coastal strand and resprouted naturally when the soil was disturbed
● Native birds ate the seeds and used the plant material for nesting

Sources and Credits

1. Friends of Kealia Pond NWR, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), uploaded by Friends of Kealia Pond NWR
2. (c) Friends of Kealia Pond NWR, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• World Flora Online

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