Plant: Dioecious shrub to 2 m Leaves: leaves linear, oblong-lanceolate, light green Flowers: flowers in glomerules in spikes at ends of branches Fruit: an utricle, conspicuously four-winged; Seed 1.5-2.5 mm, erect Misc: Clay to gravelly flats, slopes, scrub; < 2400 m. Notes: 4-winged References: W. B. McDougal. Seed Plants of Northern Arizona.J.C. Hickman, ed. The Jepson Manual. ASU specimens.