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Chenopodium albescens
Stems

erect, much-branched, 4–10 dm, farinose.
Leaves

non-aromatic;

petiole 0.4–1.5 cm;

blade rhombic-ovate to narrowly rhombic-ovate or narrowly ovate, 1.2–3.4 × 0.4–1.4 cm, thick, base cuneate, margins usually with pair of basal, upwardly pointing lobes, apex broadly acute to mucro, densely farinose abaxially.
Inflorescences

glomerules in terminal and axillary panicles;

glomerules maturing irregularly;

bracts leaflike or linear, 2 × 0.1 mm.
Flowers

perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base;

lobes ovate, 0.6–1 mm, apex rounded, slightly keeled abaxially, densely farinose, covering fruit at maturity;

stamens 5;

stigmas 2, 0.3–0.5 mm.
Seeds

oblong-ovoid, 1–1.2 mm, margins acute;

seed coat black, fine-rugulate.
Utricles

ovoid;

pericarp nonadherent, smooth.

Chenopodium albescens
Phenology Fruiting early summer.
Habitat Dry soils, river bottoms
Elevation 400-700 m (1300-2300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
TX
Discussion

Chenopodium albescens is a poorly known or understood taxon. In some ways it is intermediate between C. fremontii and C. album. There are additional scattered reports from Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, and New Mexico.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 292.
Parent taxa Chenopodiaceae > Chenopodium > subg. Chenopodium > sect. Chenopodium > subsect. Fremontia
Sibling taxa
C. album, C. atrovirens, C. berlandieri, C. bonus-henricus, C. californicum, C. capitatum, C. chenopodioides, C. cycloides, C. desiccatum, C. ficifolium, C. foggii, C. foliosum, C. fremontii, C. glaucum, C. hians, C. incanum, C. leptophyllum, C. macrospermum, C. murale, C. neomexicanum, C. nevadense, C. opulifolium, C. pallescens, C. polyspermum, C. pratericola, C. rubrum, C. simplex, C. standleyanum, C. strictum, C. subglabrum, C. urbicum, C. vulvaria, C. watsonii
Name authority Small: Fl. S.E. U.S., 385, 1330. (1903)
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