Kochia californica |
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Mojave kochia, Mojave red sage, rusty molly |
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Habit | Plants brownish, brownish green, or grayish green, 10–60 cm, densely tomentose. |
Stems | erect (rarely ascending), branched throughout; branches arcuate, ascending or spreading. |
Leaves | usually remote, not overlapping, sessile; blade narrowly ovate, lanceolate, or oblong-linear, flattened, 3–20 × 1.5–3.5 mm, sericeous. |
Inflorescences | spicate, or primary axis paniculately branched; 1–4(–5)-flowered in axils of bracts. |
Perianth | segments densely tomentose or almost glabrate. |
Kochia californica |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Alkaline soils, deserts, semideserts, eroded mountain slopes, other marginal habitats |
Elevation | 0-1500 m (0-4900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; NV
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 312. |
Parent taxa | Chenopodiaceae > Kochia > sect. Neokochia |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Bassia californica, K. americana var. californica |
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 17: 378. (1882) |
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