Grayia (plant)

Grayia (plant)

Taxobox
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name = "Grayia" [cite web
url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?316892
title=Grayia spinosa information from NPGS/GRIN
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accessdate=2008-05-27
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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Caryophyllales
familia = Amaranthaceae
subfamilia = Chenopodioideae
genus = "Grayia"
genus_authority = Hook. & Arn.
species = "G. spinosa"
binomial = "Grayia spinosa"
binomial_authority = (Hook.) Moq.
synonyms = "Atriplex grayi"
"Atriplex spinosa"

"Grayia" is a monotypic genus of plants containing the sole species "Grayia spinosa", which is known by the common names hop sage and spiny hop sage. This plant is widely distributed across the western United States, where it grows in a number of desert and mountain habitats. It is a small, multibranched, brambly shrub generally under a meter in height. The grayish branches have spiny, pointed ends and stiff twigs. During the growing season the branches are covered in small oval-shaped, flat to scooplike leaves mostly under 3 centimeters in length. The shrub is dioecious, with male individuals flowering in clumps of a few flowers surrounded by leaflike bracts, and female individuals producing inflorescences of bright pink, yellow, or white fruiting bracts surrounding tiny petalless pistillate flowers. Female inflorescences are much larger than male and make the plant one of the more colorful shrubs in the springtime habitat. The fruit is a utricle only a few millimeters wide. The shrub sheds its leaves and flowers by the summer in hot or dry areas and becomes a woody gray thicket; it is evergreen in some regions. The genus was named after the botanist Asa Gray.

References

External links

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?3084,3179,3180 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=GRSP USDA Plants Profile]
* [http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/shrub/graspi/all.html Ecology]
* [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Grayia+spinosa Photo gallery]


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