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3. Twigs not as above. 

 4. Leave densely white- or gray-scurfy with branlike scales, 

 1- to 3- veined from near base, broadly egg-shaped or oval, 



rounded or wedge-shaped at base, to % inch long and }{ inch 

 wide, thick, stalked; pollen-producing flowers in ball-like 

 clusters in leaf axils near twig tips, borne on different plants 

 from the seed-producing flowers which are solitary or several 

 together in upper leaf axils; each seed enclosed between 2 

 leaflike bracts united at base but free at top and side edges; 

 erect, rounded shrubs 1-3 feet high, with rigid spiny-tipped 

 twigs and smooth, straw-colored bark; dry, alkaline hillsides, 

 Lake, Harney, Malheur Cos., se. Oreg., not reported from 

 Wash shadscale saltbush (Atriplex confer tifolia). 2 



2 See Evergreen Key for fourwing saltbush {Atriplex canescens), the fruiting 

 twigs of which are weakly spiny-tipped. 



Shadscale saltbush 



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