Flora of North America species comparison

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Krascheninnikovia

white sage, winter fat, winter sage
Habit Subshrubs, monoecious or dioecious, herbage densely tomentose, hairs stellate.
Stems

erect, not jointed or armed;

basal branches woody, flowering branches herbaceous.
Leaves

alternate, petiolate;

blade linear to narrowly lanceolate, not fleshy, base truncate, margins entire, revolute, apex blunt.
Inflorescences

axillary clusters or small spikes.
Flowers

unisexual;

staminate flowers with bractlets absent, perianth 4-parted, stamens 4;

pistillate flowers enclosed in 2 partially connate, slightly keeled, densely hirsute bractlets with free tips hornlike, perianth absent, stigmas 2, elongate.
Seeds

vertical, ovate;

seed coat brown, covered with white hairs;

embryo annular, perisperm copious.
Fruiting

structures ovate, flat utricles;

pericarp free, thin.
x

= 9.

Krascheninnikovia
Distribution
from USDA
North America; Eurasia
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 3 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 307. Author: Noel H. Holmgren.
Parent taxa Chenopodiaceae
Subordinate taxa
K. lanata
Name authority Gueldenstaedt: Novi Comme nt. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. 16: 551. (1772)
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