Atriplex confertifolia

Family: Chenopodiaceae
Common Name: Shadscale saltbrush
Symbol: ATCO
Description: Dioecious, spinescent shrub. Leaves persistent, alternate, petiole 1-4 mm, blade orbiculate to ovate, elliptic, or oval, margin entire, apex obtuse. Staminate flowers yellow in clusters in branched panicles, pistillate flowers arranged similarly. Fruiting bracteoles sessile suborbiculate or elliptic, body indurate, terminal teeth, foliaceious, shorter than bracteoles, entire or toothed below, terminal teeth at maturity, faces smooth.