BROOM SEEPWEED
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Suaeda calceoliformis (Hook. ) Moq.
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| [=Suaeda depressa (Pursh ) S. Wats.] |
| Sumner County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 4-40 inches |
| Family: Amaranthaceae - Amaranth Family |
| Flowering Period: July, August, September,October |
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| Also Called: | | Sea-blite, horned seepweed. | | Stems: | | Decumbent to ascending or erect, usually branched from base, glabrous, glaucous. | | Leaves: | | Cauline, alternate, simple; petiole absent; blade subterete or terete, linear, .4 to 1.6 inch long, .02 to .06 inch wide, base slightly narrowed, margins entire, tip acute to apiculate, without spine-like bristle, surfaces glabrous, glaucous. | | Inflorescences: | | Axillary glomerules arranged in compound spike; bracts leaf-like, .08 to .5 inch, acute to apiculate, without spine-like bristle at tip. | | Flowers: | | Bisexual, sometimes also unisexual flowers; tepals 5, 1 or 3 usually larger than others, connate 1/2 their lengths, fleshy, keeled or narrowly winged and horned distally; petals 0; stamens 5; styles usually 2; stigmas usually 2. | | Fruits: | | Utricles; seeds of 2 types; black, lenticular, .03 to .07 inch or brown, flat, .04 to .06 inch. | | Habitat: | | Saline or alkaline marshes and wetlands, shores of reservoirs. | | Distribution: | | West 2/3 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Uses: | | The Paiute used the seeds for food. |
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