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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Chenopodiaceae
Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad. subsp. scoparia
burning bush, common kockia, Mexican fireweed, summer-cypress
Kochia: named for Wilhelm Daniel Josef Koch (1771-1849), a German doctor and professor of botany
scoparia: Latin for "broom-like" from Latin scopa for "broom"
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 6"-40" tall forb, bushy-branched and softly hairy |
| Flower: | cream to yellow, 5-parted, tiny, stalkless, no petals, either solitary or in pairs; inflorescence dense spikes from leaf axils; blooms July-Sept. |
| Fruit: | star-shaped, in the leaf axils |
| Leaf: | softly hairy above, stalkless, mostly linear with a blunt tip |
| Habitat: | disturbed sites |
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