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| Often fleshy, weedy plants with tiny green flowers usually in clusters with no bracts. Usually 1 stamen per and opposite each sepal. No petals. | |
| Flora of North America: Discussion, key to genera (opens new window) | |
| Flower Formula: Sepals 5; Petals 0 | Glossary |
| Genus (Click for Taxon List) |
WI Taxa (map link) |
Photo | Genus Traits | Google Searches |
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| Atriplex
orache, saltbush |
4 |  |
Seeds surrounded by bracts but not flower. Minute flowers. Leaves usually Alternate above and Opposite below and mealy. | Images Information |
| Chenopodium
goosefoot, pigweed |
15 |  |
Seeds free and exposed from flower. Flowers small, green to reddish, in globes or an elongated, narrow, mixed panicle made up of small cymes. | Images Information |
| Corispermum
bugseed |
3 |  |
Seeds free and exposed from flower. Leaves linear entire. | Images Information |
| Cycloloma
winged pigweed |
1 |  |
Seeds surrounded by flower. Leaves toothed or lobed. Fruit Winged. | Images Information |
| Dysphania
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3 |  |
Seeds surrounded by flower. Leaves toothed or lobed. Fruit Winged. | Images Information |
| Kochia
summer-cypress |
1 |  |
Seeds surrounded by flower. Fruit with wings. Leaves linear entire and entire but no spines. | Images Information |
| Salsola
Russian thistle |
2 |  |
Seeds surrounded by flower. Fruit with wings. Leaves linear entire and entire with spines. | Images Information |
| Suaeda
seep-weed |
1 |  |
Seeds surrounded by flower. Leaves linear and entire. | Images Information |