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.