Atriplex powellii

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Atriplex powellii
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Atriplex powellii flowering near Malheur, Oregon
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Atriplex
Species:
A. powellii
Binomial name
Atriplex powellii

Atriplex powellii, or Powell's saltweed, is a plant found in the United States and Canada.

Uses

Among the Zuni people, the seeds were eaten raw before the presence of corn and afterwards. They are also ground with corn meal and made into a mush. [2] [3]

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<i>Amaranthus blitoides</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Atriplex canescens</i> Species of flowering plant

Atriplex canescens is a species of evergreen shrub in the family Amaranthaceae native to the western and midwestern United States.

<i>Cycloloma</i> Genus of flowering plants

Cycloloma is a monotypic genus which contains the sole species Cycloloma atriplicifolium, which is known by the common names winged pigweed, tumble ringwing, plains tumbleweed, and tumble-weed. This plant is native to central North America, but it is spreading and has been occasionally reported in far-flung areas from California to Maine to the Canadian prairie. It is considered an introduced species outside of central North America. This is a bushy annual herb forming a rounded pale green clump which may exceed 0.5 m in height. It is very intricately branched, with toothed leaves occurring near the base. The spreading stems bear widely spaced flowers are small immature fruits fringed with a nearly transparent membranous wing. In autumn, the plant forms a tumbleweed. The fruit is a utricle about 2 millimeters long containing a single seed.

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<i>Atriplex argentea</i> Species of flowering plant

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Atriplex phyllostegia is a species of saltbush known by the common names arrowscale, leafcover saltweed, and Truckee orach. It is native to the western United States from California to Utah, where it grows in meadow bottoms and areas with saline soils such as dry or ephemeral lakes.

<i>Chenopodium leptophyllum</i> Species of flowering plant

Chenopodium leptophyllum is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common name narrowleaf goosefoot.

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Charles Wesley Powell was an American hobbyist turned horticulturist specializing in the study of orchids (Orchidaceae). He is credited with providing scientists the first large-scale collection of orchid specimens found in Panama. In the early 1900s, he became internationally famous for his new discoveries and valuable contributions to orchidology by gathering, rediscovering, cultivating, preserving, documenting, and submitting-for-study a diverse assortment of hundreds of distinct specimens: yielding many new to science species.

Abel Aken Hunter was an American botanist who extensively collected and cataloged the orchids of Panama. From 1915 to 1935, he was a team member on orchid hunting expeditions with many of the leading collectors and researchers of the day: Charles Powell, George Pring, Carroll Dodge, Julian Steyermark, and Paul Allen. Hunter and Allen's herbarium specimens can be found in the Oakes Ames Herbarium at Harvard University—four of which proved to be new species.

Saltweed may refer to:

References

  1. "Plants Profile for Atriplex powellii (Powell's saltweed)".
  2. tevenson, Matilda Coxe 1915 Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30 (p.66)
  3. Castetter, Edward F. 1935 Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food. University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(1):1-44 (p. 22)