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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial Similar Species: Alternanthera caracasana
General Desc:
Perennial mat-forming forb with numerous stems from a thick root.
Identification notes: Numerous stems are flat to the ground, hairy, greenish to reddish in color, and form dense, spreading mats. Tiny flowers are in dense, in mounded, poorly defined clusters.
Height:
2 inches
Habitat Description: Found on dry soil in disturbed areas.
Plant Communities:
Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 2500 - 6000 feet
Color:
Yellow-white
Shape:
Regular in round clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Jun - Oct
Description:
Dense kidney-shaped structures at base of flower; flower bracts (sepals) about 1/16 inch, lobes bent backward, erect in age, tip sharp to rounded, mid-vein ending before tip; filament tube <1/16 inch. Flowers in dense sessile clusters in leaf axils.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Round or oval
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Basal and opposite
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Basal leaves in rosettes, often deciduous; stem leaves are oval to round, woolly beneath, smooth or sparsely silky above, 1/8 to 3/4 inch long and sharp to blunt at their tips.
Fruit Color: Brown
Fruit Notes: Fruit is small, bladder-like and thin-walled fruit (utricle), does not split open at maturity.
Seed Notes: Lens-shape to spherical, smooth, <1/16 inch, red-brown.
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