There, Ayla thought, in that open space-some animal must have made that by rolling in it-those are goosefoots, what Nezzie called goosefoots, like the pigweed near the clan's cave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

Thus, the docks, the goosefoots, the nettle, the chickweed, mallows, and many other common weeds, seem to be universal, though unwelcome companions to man -- dogging his footsteps, affording by their presence, even in now deserted districts, an almost certain index of the former residence of human beings on the spot. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852] Reference