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<br />to Oregon, south to New Mexico and California. Our few specimens from southern and
<br />western Colorado at 4500 -7000 feet.
<br />Suaeda fruticosa. Perennial plants, somewhat woody at base, glaucous, near or quite
<br />glabrous, stems, 30 -80 cm. tall, much branched, rather densely leafy, Ieaves 1 -3 cm. long,
<br />narrowly linear, subterete, acute or obtuse, those of the inflorescence little reduced,
<br />branches of the inflorescence stout, perianth lobes obtuse or acute, rounded on back, seeds
<br />mostly horizontal, about 0.8 mm. wide. May not be distinct from S. torreyana. Alkaline
<br />and saline soil. Alberta to Mexico; Europe; Asia and Africa. Our rather few records in
<br />the western half of Colorado at 4500 -5500 feet.
<br />Kochia americana. Per plants; stems erect from stout woody roots and branched
<br />woody bases, the season's branches 10 -40 cm. tall, mostly simple, glabrous to pubescent;
<br />leaves 5 -30 mm. long, narrowly linear, erect or ascending, acute, fleshy, sessile, glabrous to
<br />sericeous; flowers solitary or in 2's, 3's, hairy, perianth in fruit 2 mm. across, the wings 1.5-
<br />2 mm. long, conspicuous. Plains and foothills. Wyoming to California, south to New
<br />Mexico and Arizona. Our rather few 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. Great
<br />Basin Naturalist Memoirs No. 9. Brigham Young University. 894 pages; contains the
<br />following:
<br />Suaeda torreyana. Torrey Seepweed. Plants glabrous or pubscent, sometimes glaucous,
<br />suffrutescent or definitely shrubby, 1 -12 (15) dm tall or more, with slender ascending or
<br />spreading branches; leaves 0.5 -3.5 cm long, 1 -3 mm thick, subterete to flattened, abruptly
<br />short- petiolate, intergrading with floral bracts upwards; flowers 1 -8 or more per axil, calyx
<br />lobes equal, ca 1.5 -2 mm long, the lobes merely rounded dorsally, not horned or
<br />tuberculate, fruit horizontal or vertical, seeds 0.8 -1.2 mm wide, black shiny; n =9, 18.
<br />Greasewood, seepweed, saltgrass, and other salt desert shrub communities; often in riparian
<br />or palustrine habitats at 1125 to 1955 in in Box Elder, Carbon, Cache, Davis, Duchesne,
<br />Emery, 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 from a
<br />woody base; herbage villous - pilose to glabrous, leaves 5 -25 mm long, 1 -2 mm wide, linear,
<br />semiterete and fleshy; flowers solitary or 2 -5, sessile in axils of scarcely reduced leaves;
<br />inflorescence often more than half the branch length, perianth segments pubescent, at least
<br />apically, 1 -1 -5 mm long, hooded above, somewhat enlarged in fruit, ultimately keeled and
<br />with a membranous, striate wing to 2 mm long and 3 mm wide. Greasewood, seepweed,
<br />saltbush, saltgrass, matchweed, horsebrush, and pinyon juniper communities at 1125 to
<br />1985 rn in Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Emery, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Juab, Millard,
<br />Salt Lake, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Tooele, Uintah, Utah and Wayne counties; Oregon
<br />to Montana, south to California, Arizona and New Mexico.
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