Atriplex obovata |
Atriplex garrettii |
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broadscale, mound saltbush, New Mexico saltbush, silver saltbush |
Garrett's saltbush |
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Habit | Subshrubs, dioecious, clump forming, mainly 2–8 dm and as wide, woody at base. | Shrubs or subshrubs, dioecious (rarely monoecious), mainly 2–8(–10) × 5–10+ dm, unarmed. | ||||
Stems | stiffly erect; branchlets terete. |
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Leaves | tardily deciduous, alternate or proximal-most subopposite, shortly petiolate; blade gray green, oblong-ovate to elliptic or orbiculate, 8–30(–35) × 6–20 mm, margin entire or rarely dentate, apex rounded to retuse or obtuse. |
opposite or subopposite proximally, or some alternate distally; petiole 2–6 mm; blade yellow green, ovate to obovate, elliptic, or orbiculate, 8–55 × 6–32 mm, base obtuse to cuneate, margin entire or repand-dentate, apex rounded to acute, sparingly scurfy. |
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Staminate flowers | yellow, in clusters 2–3 mm wide, borne in panicles 6–30 cm. |
brown to tan or yellow, in clusters 2–4 mm wide, on panicles 2–10(–15) cm. |
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Pistillate flowers | in small, very numerous glomerules in axils of elongated, terminal leafy-bracteate spikes or finally paniculate. |
in spikes or spicate panicles 4–30 cm. |
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Seeds | brown, 2.4–2.8 mm. |
brown, 2 mm wide. |
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Fruiting | bracteoles sessile or substipitate, 4–5 × 5–9 mm, base broadly cuneate, margin sharply toothed, apical tooth subtended by 2–6 equal or smaller teeth, faces smooth or rarely tuberculate. |
bracteoles sessile or on stipes to 7 mm, body 4-winged, 6–10 mm and wide, toothed apically, surface smooth, reticulate, or with flattened processes, wings 3–4 mm wide. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Atriplex obovata |
Atriplex garrettii |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–fall. | |||||
Habitat | Fine-textured substrates, with salt desert shrub and lower pinyon-juniper communities | |||||
Elevation | 1500-2000 m (4900-6600 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; TX; UT; Mexico
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AZ; UT |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 371. | FNA vol. 4, p. 375. | ||||
Parent taxa | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Pterochiton | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Pterochiton | ||||
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Synonyms | A. greggii, A. jonesii, A. obovata var. tuberata | A. canescens subsp. garrettii, A. canescens var. garrettii | ||||
Name authority | Moquin-Tandon: Chenop. Monogr. Enum., 61. (1840) | Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 39: 312. (1912) | ||||
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