Atriplex suberecta |
Atriplex torreyi |
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peregrine saltbush, sprawling saltbush |
Torrey saltbush, Torrey's quailbush, Torrey's saltbush |
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Habit | Herbs, annual or perennial, sprawling to ascending, 2–6 dm, branching from densely scaly base. | Shrubs, dioecious, forming broad clumps, mostly (8–)1.2–20(–30) dm; branchlets striately and often sharply angled, glabrous or sparingly puberulent, often becoming bluntly spiny. | ||||
Leaves | mostly alternate, shortly petiolate; blade narrow to broadly rhomboid, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or elliptic, (8–)12–35(–42) × 6–16 mm, thin, margin coarsely and irregularly dentate, glabrescent adaxially, somewhat scurfy abaxially. |
persistent, alternate; petiole 1–4 mm; blade grayish or greenish, ovate to deltate, rhombic, oval, or lanceolate, typically subhastate, (5–)12–32 × 4–16(–20) mm, base truncate to obtuse, margin entire (rarely toothed), apex obtuse and apiculate. |
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Staminate flowers | in subterminal, axillary glomerules. |
yellow, in clusters 1 mm wide, borne in panicles mainly 10–30 cm. |
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Pistillate flowers | in axillary glomerules. |
in once-branched panicles. |
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Seeds | circular. |
brown, 1–1.9 mm wide. |
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Fruiting | bracteoles sessile or on the stipe to 0.5 mm, rhombic to obovate, almost flat to convex, 2.2–4 × 1.7–2.7 mm, thin or somewhat thickened in age, connate in basal 1/2, margin entire in basal 1/2, 2–4-toothed in distal 1/2, apex acute, scurfy. |
bracteoles sessile, orbiculate, greatly compressed, 1.3–4 mm, about as wide, margin crenate, apex rounded. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Atriplex suberecta |
Atriplex torreyi |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–fall. | |||||
Habitat | Disturbed places, with other ruderal weeds | |||||
Elevation | 10-900 m (0-3000 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; UT; Australia; naturalized South Africa [Introduced in North America]
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AZ; CA; NV; 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. 343. | FNA vol. 4, p. 378. | ||||
Parent taxa | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Atriplex > sect. Semibaccata | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Pterochiton | ||||
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Synonyms | Obione torreyi, A. lentiformis subsp. torreyi, A. lentiformis var. torreyi | |||||
Name authority | I. Verdoorn: Bothalia 6: 418, figs. 2, 3(2). (1954) | (S. Watson) S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 9: 119. (1874) | ||||
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