Atriplex hymenelytra (Desert Holly)

12/5/99 Entrance to Mosaic Canyon, Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Desert Holly

SPECIES: Triplex hymenelytra

FAMILY: Chenopodiaceae (Goosefoot Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 12/5/1999

LOCATION: Entrance to Mosaic Canyon, Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Shrub 4–10 dm, rounded, silver-scaly

Stem simple below, erect; branches many, spreading to ascending

Leaves petioled; blade 12–45 mm, widely ovate to round, thick, irregularly and sharply dentate

Pistillate inflorescences sometimes terminal; bracts in fruit short-stalked, 6–20 mm, free, round to ± reniform, entire to ± crenate

Seed ± 2 mm

Ecology: Slopes, washes, scrub

Elevation: < 1500 m.  

Bioregional distribution: se Peninsular Ranges, East of Sierra Nevada, Desert 

Distribution outside California: to sw Utah, Arizona, n Mexico

Flowering time: Jan–Apr

Horticultural information: DFCLT.