B33 



SEEPWILLOW 



Bac'charis glutino'sa 



Flower heads small (mostly less than 

 Yt in, long), numerous, of 2 kinds: 

 male (staminate) and female (pistillate) 

 borne on separate plants and in 

 branched end clusters (panicles) 



Center (disk) flowers of heads small, 

 yellow, tubular in male heads, thread- 

 like and seed-producing in the female; 

 outer (ray) flowers lacking 



"Seed" (acbene) produced on female 

 plants only, hairless, 5-nerved, tipped 

 by rather scant, somewhat roughened, 

 white bristles (pappus) less than % in. 

 long 



Bracts in a 4- or 5-overlapping-rowed 

 series (involucre) around flower head, 

 egg-shaped, straw-colored, thin-papery, 

 rather dry, hairless, somewhat finely 

 fringed at tips 



Leaves alternate, bright shining 

 green, somewhat gummy-resinous (glu- 

 tinous), elongate lance-shaped, up to 

 about 6 in. long, 3-ne'rved ' from base, 

 distantly and finely saw-toothed or 

 uppor leaves entire on margins 



Stems woody below, rather slender, 

 erect or straggling, up to 12 ft. high, 

 leafy, somewhat ridged or angled 



Seepwillow, known locally as false, Gila, or water willow, and also as 

 groundsel tree, water motie, and water-wally, is a graceful, willowy shrub 

 with many straight, slender stems from 3 to 12 feet high, growing in clumps 

 from a few to 20 feet or more in diameter or sometimes in dense thickets. 

 The current shoots are long and branched toward the top into several straight 

 branchlets, which support a tassel of greenish white flowers. The leaves are 



