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<br />Mike Boulay -20- April 11, 2011
<br />distinct from S. torreyana. Alkaline and saline soil. Alberta to Mexico; Europe;
<br />Asia and Africa. Our rather few records in the western half of Colorado at 4500-
<br />5500 feet.
<br />Kochia americana. Perennial plants; stems erect from stout woody roots and
<br />branched woody bases, the season's branches 10-40 cm. tall, mostly simple,
<br />glabrous to pubescent; leaves 5-30 mm. long, narrowly linear, erect or ascending,
<br />acute, fleshy, sessile, glabrous to sericeous; flowers solitary or in 2's, 3's, hairy,
<br />perianth in fruit 2 mm. across, the wings 1.5-2 mm. long, conspicuous. Plains and
<br />foothills. Wyoming to California, south to New Mexico and Arizona. Our rather few
<br />records from western Colorado at 4500-5500 feet.
<br />Welsh, S. L. N. D. Atwood, S. Goodrich, and L.C. Higgins. 1987. A Utah Flora.
<br />Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs No. 9. Brigham Young University. 894 pages;
<br />contains the following:
<br />Suaeda torreyana. Torrey Seepweed. Plants glabrous or pubscent, sometimes
<br />glaucous, suffrutescent or definitely shrubby, 1-12 (15) dm tall or more, with
<br />slender ascending or spreading branches; leaves 0.5-3.5 cm long, 1-3 mm thick,
<br />subterete to flattened, abruptly short-petiolate, intergrading with floral bracts
<br />upwards; flowers 1-8 or more per axil, calyx lobes equal, ca 1.5-2 mm long, the
<br />lobes merely rounded dorsally, not horned or tuberculate, fruit horizontal or
<br />vertical, seeds 0.8-1.2 mm wide, black shiny; n=9, 18. Greasewood, seepweed,
<br />saltgrass, and other salt desert shrub communities; often in riparian or palustrine
<br />habitats at 1125 to 1955 m in Box Elder, Carbon, Cache, Davis, Duchesne, Emery,
<br />Garfield, Grand, Juab, Kane, Millard, Salt Lake, San Juan, Sevier, Tooele, Uintah,
<br />Utah, and Wayne counties; California, Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona and Mexico.
<br />Kochia americana. Gray Molly. Plants mainly 5-30 cm tall, with erect branches
<br />from a woody base; herbage villous-pilose to glabrous, leaves 5-25 mm long, 1-2
<br />mm wide, linear, semiterete and fleshy; flowers solitary or 2-5, sessile in axils of
<br />scarcely reduced leaves; inflorescence often more than half the branch length,
<br />perianth segments pubescent, at least apically, 1-1-5 mm long, hooded above,
<br />somewhat enlarged in fruit, ultimately keeled and with a membranous, striate wing
<br />to 2 mm long and 3 mm wide. Greasewood, seepweed, saltbush, saltgrass,
<br />matchweed, horsebrush, and pinyon juniper communities at 1125 to 1985 m in
<br />Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Emery, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Juab, Millard, Salt
<br />Lake, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Tooele, Uintah, Utah and Wayne counties;
<br />Oregon to Montana, south to California, Arizona and New Mexico.
<br />In a comprehensive vegetation study (CAM-Colorado LLC - Proposed Red Cliff
<br />Mine - Exhibit 5 - Baseline Vegetation Survey) prepared in cooperation with the
<br />DRMS and the BLM for the proposed Red Cliff Mine Draft Environmental Impact
<br />State, at a site located approximately 12 miles to the north of this site, Kochia
<br />americana (Gray Molly) was reported to be the most abundant perennial forb found
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