CHENOPODIACEAE

Atriplex elegans (Moquin-Tandon) D. Dietrich var. elegans

Wheel-scale saltbush


Anyone familiar with four-wing saltbush (Atriplex canescens) would find it amazing that the diminutive A. elegans is in the same genus.

Bajada below Mahoney Park, west side of Florida Mountains     8 September 2003