Atriplex semibaccata
Atriplex powellii
Powell's saltweed
erect, branched; reddish with age.
alternate throughout;
blades rhombic-ovate to ovate, 5–30 × 1.5–5.5 mm, bases cuneate to cordate;
margins entire;
tips obtuse to acute, gray-farinose on both or just lower surfaces;
petioles becoming short to subsessile distally, 2–20(25) mm.
axillary clusters, staminate and pistillate flowers typically intermixed;
distal clusters occasionally staminate.
perianths 4- or 5-parted.
perianths absent;
bracteoles 2.
monomorphic, 1.5–2 mm, brown.
fused to tips; oval to obovate; (1.5)2.5–5 mm; lower ½–? with winged margins and faces thick-tuberculate; upper faces smooth;
tips with 1 tooth and 2 rounded lobes, sessile.
=18.
Atriplex semibaccata
Atriplex powellii
Deserts, sagebrush communities. Flowering Apr–Oct. 900–1200 m. Owy. ID, NV; northeast to Alberta, east to NE, southeast to TX. Native.
Bridget Chipman
CA
WA
Flora NW
PNW Herbaria
WildflowerSearch
iNaturalist
USDA Plants Database
OR
