Powell's Saltweed

Herbs, dioecious or sometimes sparingly monoecious. Stems slender to stout, mainly 1-5(-7) dm, branching almost throughout; herbage pubescent with scurfy and arachnoid hairs. Leaves alternate, proximalmost on petioles (3-)5-30 mm, becoming subsessile or short petiolate distally; blade 3-veined, ovate to rhombic or orbiculate to elliptic, 0.4-5 × 0.2-3 cm, base rounded to cuneate, margin entire, apex acute to obtuse. Staminate flowers with calyx 4-5-lobed. Fruiting bracteoles sessile, ovate to oblong or broadly cuneate or pan-duriform, 1.5-5.5 × 1.5-5 mm, thick, united to apex, apex truncate to cuspidate or tridentate, surfaces with thickened processes or rarely smooth. Seeds greenish, yellowish, or brown, 0.9-2 mm; radicle superior. 2n = 18.

Obione powellii (S. Watson) Ulbrich

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

Atriplex powellii là loài thực vật có hoa thuộc họ Dền. Loài này được S.Watson mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1874.