UCR - University of California, Riverside Herbarium - Vascular Plants (UCR)
UCR-BPS-212913
UCR-212913
Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt.
Chenopodiaceae
A.C. Sanders
37595
2010-03-25
2010-3-25
United States, California, Imperial, Imperial Valley, upper English Road at bend around end of fig orchard, c. 6 mi. NNW of Niland
33.32028 -115.54528
10 meters (33ft)
Alluvial slope, disturbed by dumping of fill years ago (presumably from construction of Coachella Canal); sand and gravel over old lake sediments (exposed in wash banks); with Larrea, Ambrosia dumosa, Suaeda, Brassica tournefortii, Lycium brevipes, Hymenoclea, Atriplex canescens, etc.
Remnants
Uncommon 1.5 m shrubs on wash edges; mostly with old remnant frt, but a very few still green.