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Origin:
Introduced
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
Slender taproot; stems branched, smooth to slightly grooved, covered in star-shaped hairs; flat, thin leaves; flowers in a loose, spike-like cluster.
Identification notes: Plants to 27 inches tall, branched near base or above; flower stems narrow and lax, usually with gaps without flowers; fruits yellowish, greenish-brown, or brown, often with reddish-brown spots, whitish warts; bracts not uniform, distal bract shorter.
Height:
To 27 inches
Habitat Description: Sandy soils, dunes, gravely shores, sandy waste places, fields.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Riparian, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 2950 - 3900 feet
Color:
Greenish
Shape:
Regular in elongated clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Aug - Oct
Description:
1 flower in axil of leaf-like bracts, greenish, tiny, scale-like, with 1 sepal and no petals. Bracts to 3/4 inch long, 1/8 to 1/2 inch wide, egg-shaped to linear lance-shaped or sometimes linear; 1 projecting stamen; 2 stigmas.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Solitary stem that branches near the plant base, smooth to slightly grooved, hairs star-shaped, often becoming hairless, greenish to reddish with age; alternate, stalk-less leaves to 2 inches long, 1/16 to 1/4 inch wide, linear, hairy, margin entire.
Fruit Color: Yellowish, greenish, reddish
Fruit Type: Achene
Fruit Notes: Yellowish, greenish or reddiish tints possible. Stalk-less, sometimes concealed by the bracts, 1/16 to 1/4 inch long,1/16 inch wide, reverse egg-shaped, broadest past the middle, slightly convex beneath, more or less flat above, winged. Wing translucent.
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