Atriplex truncata
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| Atriplex truncata | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus: | Atriplex |
| Species: | A. truncata
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| Atriplex truncata | |
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Atriplex truncata is a species of saltbush known by the common names wedgeleaf saltbush, wedgescale, and wedge orach, native to western North America from British Columbia to California and to New Mexico. It grows in montane to desert habitats with saline soils, such as dry lake beds.
Description
[edit | edit source]Atriplex truncata is an annual herb producing erect, angled stems which can be higher than 70 centimeters. Leaves are 1 to 4 centimeters long and wedge-shaped. The stems and herbage are generally very scaly and scurfy. Male and female flowers are produced in small clusters in the leaf axils.
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Jepson Manual Treatment
- USDA Plants Profile for Atriplex truncata (wedgescale saltbush)
- Photo gallery
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Categories:
- Atriplex
- Halophytes
- Flora of the Northwestern United States
- Flora of Western Canada
- Flora of British Columbia
- Flora of California
- Flora of Colorado
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of New Mexico
- Flora of Utah
- Flora of the California desert regions
- Flora of the Great Basin
- Flora of the Rocky Mountains
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Natural history of the Mojave Desert
- Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
- Plants described in 1871
- Amaranthaceae stubs