Flora of North America species comparison

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Atriplex torreyi var. torreyi
Photo is of parent taxon

Torrey's saltbush
Habit Plants mainly 8–20 dm, and as wide or wider; twigs stout or slender, striately angled, sometimes bluntly spiny.
Petiole

2–4 mm.
Pistillate flowers

borne in panicles 5–20+ cm.
Seeds

1–1.7 mm wide.
Fruiting

bracteoles orbiculate to subreniform, mainly 1.3–3.8 × 2–4.6 mm.

Atriplex torreyi var. torreyi
Phenology Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat Mesquite, creosote bush, greasewood, rabbitbrush, shadscale, saltgrass, saltbush, and blackbrush communities, mainly in saline substrates
Elevation 500-2000 m (1600-6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; UT
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 378.
Parent taxa Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Pterochiton > Atriplex torreyi
Sibling taxa
A. torreyi var. griffithsii
Name authority unknown
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