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W <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