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Fourwing saltbush 



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branched shrubs 2-6 (or 10) feet high; dry, 

 sandy to strongly alkaline soils; locally e. Oreg., 

 e. Wash. 



fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens) . 46 

 19. Leaves green, narrow to broad; bark reddish, 

 purplish, chocolate, or dark reddish brown, smooth 

 and polished or rough-scaly and shreddy; flowers 

 urn-shaped, white, pink or rose, usually 5-lobed, 

 stalked, in scaly-bracted end clusters; stamens 

 10; anther sacs tipped by recurved awns, opening 

 by end pores; "berries" (drupes) creamy white to 

 yellowish brown, red, or brown to blackish; 

 "seeds" (nutlets) 4-10, fused or separable; mat- 

 forming, low and depressed, or erect shrubs with 

 crooked branches and to several feet high. 



bearberry (or kinnikinnick) and manzanitas 



(Arctostaphylos spp.). 

 21. Shrubs low and depressed, or prostrate, stems 

 often rooting or branches layering, not forming 

 burls at ground line and crown-sprouting after 

 fire; leaves narrow, broadest above middle, to 

 1 inch long, short -stalked; "berries" red. 



46 See Plants Armed sections of Summer and Winter Keys for shadscale saltbush 

 (Atriplex confertifolia). 



