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Atriplex lentiformis
Atriplex lentiformis
Quailbush, Big Saltbush
Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson

ID: 0000 0000 0518 0315 (2018-05-10)

Copyright © 2018 Wynn Anderson

 
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  • date of photo  Apr 21, 2018
  • latitude 30.12660   longitude 104.67680     View on Google Maps.
  • location   along Rio Grande River bank, TX-fm 170, 0.9 mi. southeast of end of pavement in Candelaria, 10.7 miles north of Ruidosa, (Presidio County, Texas, US)
  • family Amaranthaceae
  • plant community   river riparian corridor in desert scrub at 2871' (875m)
  • notes   large shrub, forming thickets scattered along river bank in alkaline, calcareous soils for about a mile south of Candelaria. An extreme eastern disjunct population from southern AZ/CAL, likely naturalized escapes from earlier local agricultural/soil conservation activities.
  • keywords: CDR, Chihuahuan Desert
  • contributor's ID #  CDR 520
  • photo category: Plant - shrub

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
  • common names   Quailbush, Big Saltbush (photographer)
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