| Atriplex alaskensis S. Wats. | |||
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| Family | Chenopodiaceae — APG family: Amaranthaceae | ||
| Description | Erect or ascending, with stout branches; lower leaves opposite, petiolated, ovate, ovate-oblong or deltoid-oblong, entire or repand-denticulate; upper leaves alternate, lanceolate, entire or subhastate; flowers in leafy spikes and axillary glomerules; fruiting bracts large, sessile, oblong, sometimes broader than long, united and thickened at base, with attenuate apex, not appendaged. | ||
| Ecology | Seashores. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.