It is based on the 1983 novel "Goosefoot" by Irish author Patrick McGinley. This plant could possibly be "Chenopodium californicum", the California goosefoot (also known as pigweed). Other plants found growing nearby were mostly grasses and members of the goosefoot family. Chenopodium vulvaria, the stinking goosefoot or notchweed, is a foul-smelling plant or weed. Other early crops included cotton, sunflower, pumpkins, tobacco, goosefoot, knotgrass, and sump weed. They grew squash, sunflower ("Helianthus annuus"), sumpweed, goosefoot, knotweed, and maygrass. An adjacent grocery, called goosefoot food & wine, opened in 2014. Common names include&colon; arrowhead plant, arrowhead vine, arrowhead philodendron, goosefoot, African evergreen, and American evergreen. Sunflowers, goosefoot, tobacco, gourds, and plums, were also grown. Shagreen leather was produced in the past using the small, hard goosefoot seeds. The larvae feed on orache ("Atriplex" species) and goosefoot ("Chenopodium" species). Goosefoot foliage is used as food by the caterpillars of certain Lepidoptera. Either wild or domesticated "Chenopodium", goosefoot, was found. Many goosefoot species are thus significant weeds, and some have become invasive species.