Flora of North America species comparison

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Kochia californica

Kochia scoparia

Mojave kochia, Mojave red sage, rusty molly

belvedere, burningbush, fireball, Mexican firebrush, Mexican fireweed, ragweed, summer-cypress
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

Kochia scoparia
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Alkaline soils, deserts, semideserts, eroded mountain slopes, other marginal habitats
Elevation 0-1500 m (0-4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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from FNA
AL; AZ; CA; CO; CT; DE; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MI; MN; MO; MS; MT; NC; ND; NE; NH; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; ON; QC; SK; Europe; Asia
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Discussion

Subspecies 2–4 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 312. FNA vol. 4, p. 311.
Parent taxa Chenopodiaceae > Kochia > sect. Neokochia Chenopodiaceae > Kochia > sect. Semibassia
Sibling taxa
K. americana, K. scoparia
K. americana, K. californica
Subordinate taxa
K. scoparia subsp. scoparia
Synonyms Bassia californica, K. americana var. californica Chenopodium scoparium
Name authority S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 17: 378. (1882) (Linnaeus) Schrader: Neues J. Bot. 3: 85. (1809)
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