Flora of North America species comparison

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Monolepis nuttalliana

Nuttall pover tyweed, Nuttall's poverty-weed
Stems

prostrate to ascending, 0.5–2(–5) dm, herbage sparsely farinose when young, becoming glabrate.
Leaves

petiole 0.1–3(–6) cm, longest on proximal leaves, distal leaves sometimes sessile;

blade of principal leaves hastately lobed near base, narrowly triangular, lanceolate, narrowly elliptic, or linear, 1–3(–4) cm × 2–15(–25) mm at lobes, base narrowly attenuate or cuneate, margins sometimes with few teeth distally, apex obtuse to rounded;

distal leaves sometimes completely unlobed.
Flowers

perianth segment 1, spatulate or obtuse, 1 mm;

stamen 1.
Seeds

dark brown to black, laterally flattened, broadly ovoid.
Utricles

1.1–1.5 mm;

pericarp readily separating from seeds, whitish, membranous, cellular-reticulate.
2n

= 18.

Monolepis nuttalliana
Phenology Flowering early spring-mid summer, fruiting through Aug.
Habitat Usually moist, subalkaline clays, often in partial shade or open disturbed habitats
Elevation 100-3000 m (300-9800 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; AZ; CA; CO; ID; KS; MN; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; OK; OR; SD; TX; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; NT; SK; YT; n Mexico
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Source FNA vol. 4, p. 301.
Parent taxa Chenopodiaceae > Monolepis
Sibling taxa
M. spathulata
Synonyms Blitum nuttallianum, M. chenopodioides
Name authority (Schultes) Greene: Fl. Francisc., 168. (1891)
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