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truncate saltbrush, wedge orach, wedge orache, wedgeleaf orache, wedgescale, wedgescale orache, wedgescale saltbush
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leafcover saltweed, Truckee orach
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| Herbs, typically erect. |
Herbs monoecious (or entirely pistillate), erect, much-branched, rounded, bushy, 0.5–6 dm. |
simple or more commonly branched throughout, mainly 2–8(–10) dm, branches mostly obtusely angled; herbage scurfy, becoming glabrate. |
mostly ascending, terete. |
alternate or proximalmost opposite, short petiolate proximally, sessile and often cordate-clasping distally; blade ovate to deltoid or oval, 4–30(–40) × 3–30 mm, base truncate or subhastate to rounded, margin entire or dentate, apex acute to obtuse. |
petiole 0.3–2 cm; blade 10–50 × 5–25 mm, base varying from shortly hastate to truncate or cuneate. |
in axillary glomerules. |
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in glomerules mainly in distal axils; sepals 3–5. |
in small to moderate, axillary glomerules near ends of branches, or in bracteate terminal spikes. |
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in axillary clusters. |
brown, 1–2 mm wide. |
brown, 1.2 mm. |
bracteoles scarcely compressed, 2–3 mm and as wide, apex truncate to broadly rounded, with 3 (or more) teeth across summit, surfaces smooth (or rarely tuberculate). |
bracteoles lanceolate or oblong, 5–14(–20) mm, sharply lobed to tuberculate at base, also often sharply cristate below usually attenuate apical lobe; tips widely recurved-spreading. |
= 18. |
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| Flowering summer–fall. |
Flowering Apr–Aug. |
| Saline saltgrass-greasewood-rabbitbrush communities, and other pans or palustrine or lacustrine habitats |
Valley bottoms, silty or clay, less commonly, sandy alluvium with greasewood |
| 400-2700 m (1300-8900 ft) |
1200-1500 m (3900-4900 ft) |
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CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SK
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NV
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| FNA vol. 4, p. 354. |
FNA vol. 4, p. 368. |
| Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Obione > sect. Obione > subsect. Truncatae |
Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Obione > sect. Phyllostegiae |
A. acanthocarpa, A. amnicola, A. argentea, A. californica, A. canescens, A. confertifolia, A. cordulata, A. coronata, A. corrugata, A. coulteri, A. covillei, A. dioica, A. elegans, A. fruticulosa, A. gardneri, A. garrettii, A. glabriuscula, A. gmelinii, A. graciliflora, A. heterosperma, A. holocarpa, A. hortensis, A. hymenelytra, A. joaquiniana, A. klebergorum, A. laciniata, A. lentiformis, A. leucophylla, A. lindleyi, A. linearis, A. littoralis, A. matamorensis, A. mucronata, A. nudicaulis, A. nummularia, A. oblongifolia, A. obovata, A. pacifica, A. parishii, A. parryi, A. patula, A. pentandra, A. phyllostegia, A. pleiantha, A. polycarpa, A. powellii, A. prostrata, A. pusilla, A. rosea, A. saccaria, A. semibaccata, A. serenana, A. spinifera, A. suberecta, A. suckleyi, A. tatarica, A. torreyi, A. tularensis, A. watsonii, A. wolfii, A. wrightii |
A. acanthocarpa, A. amnicola, A. argentea, A. californica, A. canescens, A. confertifolia, A. cordulata, A. coronata, A. corrugata, A. coulteri, A. covillei, A. dioica, A. elegans, A. fruticulosa, A. gardneri, A. garrettii, A. glabriuscula, A. gmelinii, A. graciliflora, A. heterosperma, A. holocarpa, A. hortensis, A. hymenelytra, A. joaquiniana, A. klebergorum, A. laciniata, A. lentiformis, A. leucophylla, A. lindleyi, A. linearis, A. littoralis, A. matamorensis, A. mucronata, A. nudicaulis, A. nummularia, A. oblongifolia, A. obovata, A. pacifica, A. parishii, A. parryi, A. patula, A. pentandra, A. pleiantha, A. polycarpa, A. powellii, A. prostrata, A. pusilla, A. rosea, A. saccaria, A. semibaccata, A. serenana, A. spinifera, A. suberecta, A. suckleyi, A. tatarica, A. torreyi, A. truncata, A. tularensis, A. watsonii, A. wolfii, A. wrightii |
| Obione truncata, A. subdecumbens, A. truncata var. stricta |
Obione phyllostegia, A. draconis, A. phyllostegia var. draconis |
| (Torrey ex S. Watson) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 8: 398. (1873) |
(Torrey ex S. Watson) S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 9: 108. (1874) |
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WA
Flora NW, 
PNW Herbaria
WildflowerSearch
iNaturalist (observations)
USDA Plants Database
