Atriplex elegans (Moq.) D. Dietr. 
Family: Chenopodiaceae
wheelscale saltbush,  more
[Atriplex elegans var. thornberi M.E. Jones,  more]
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Manager: ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium
Specimen Info: ASU:Plants:158208
 
Plant: Annual ± 1-5 dm; stems decumbent to ascending, ± branched, finely scaly, becoming glabrous Leaves: alternate, entire; blade 5-25 mm, elliptic to oblanceolate, densely white-scaly below, entire to dentate, tapered to basealternate, entire; blade 5-25 mm, elliptic to oblanceolate, densely white-scaly below, entire to dentate, tapered to base Inflorescence: Staminate inflorescence: spike or spheric cluster; bracts 0; Pistillate inflorescence: clusters to spike- or panicle-like; bracts in fruit 2-3.5 mm, fused to near top, round, smooth or with 1 low tubercle, toothe Flowers: Staminate flower: calyx lobes 3-5; stamens 3-5; Pistillate flower: calyx ± 0; ovary ovoid to spheric, style branches 2 Fruit: an utricle; Seed 1, 1-1.5 mm, brown, erect Misc: Saline or alkaline soils, dry lakes; < 1000 m. Notes: Fruit; at maturity inclosed by bractlets, bractlets herbacious and evenly and deeply dentate Leaf; hairs are simple, inflated hairs, grayish or whitish. Inflorescence; in clusters or glomerules. Sepals; staminate flowers have 3-5, pistallate flowers have 2 appressed orbicular bracts. References: Kearney & Peebles; Arizona Flora. McDougall; Seed plants of N. Arizona. Hickman ed.; The Jepson Manual.
Atriplex elegans image loading
Atriplex elegans image loading
Atriplex elegans image loading
Atriplex elegans image loading
Manager: ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium
Specimen Info: ASU:Plants:24196
Manager: ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium
Specimen Info: ASU:Plants:154167
Manager: ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium
Specimen Info: ASU:Plants:158208
Manager: ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium
Specimen Info: ASU:Plants:24196
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