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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Amaranthaceae
Froelichia gracilis (Hook.) Moq.
cotton-weed, slender cotton-weed, slender snake-cotton, small cotton-weed
Froelichia: for Joseph Froelich, a German botanist
gracilis: thin, slender
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| Status: | Introduced - adventive |
| Plant: | erect to drooping, annual, 8"-30" tall forb; stems usually branched near the ground |
| Flower: | white, tiny, 5-parted; inflorescence a 2" woolly spike with flowers in 3-rowed spirals; blooms July-Sept. |
| Leaf: | opposite, mostly from below the center of the stem and usually less than 2 1/2" wide |
| Habitat: | dry |
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