TUMBLE RINGWING
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Cycloloma atriplicifolium (Spreng. ) J.M. Coult.
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| Russell County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 2-32 inches |
| Family: Amaranthaceae - Amaranth Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June, July, August, September,October |
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| Also Called: | | Winged-pigweed. | | Stems: | | Spreading to erect, much-branched basally, villous to tomentulose or glabrescent. | | Leaves: | | Cauline, alternate; petiole to .6 inch; blade oblanceolate, .8 to 3.2 inches long, .2 to .8 inch wide, base wedge-shaped, margins irregularly sinuate-dentate, tip acute to mucronate, without spine-like bristle at tip, surfaces tomentulose or glabrescent. | | Inflorescences: | | Spikes, terminal; bract 1, linear to elliptic, 1/8 to 2/5 inch. | | Flowers: | | Bisexual or pistillate; tepals 5, connate ca. half their lengths, lobes each strongly keeled and horizontally winged; petals 0; stamens 5; styles 0, stigmas 3. | | Fruits: | | Utricles surrounded by persistent calyx, at maturity forming a horizontal membranous, erose, circular wing; seeds black, lens-shaped. | | Habitat: | | Sand and sandsage prairies, sandy floodplains, disturbed sandy sites | | Distribution: | | Occurs statewide | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Cycloloma, circle and border, alluding to the fruits, and atriplicifolium, alluding to the resemblance of the leaves to the genus Atriplex. |
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