Taxon: Grayia spinosa (Hook.) Moq.

Common names:

• spiny hopsage   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [w.], Idaho, Montana [s.w.], Oregon, Washington, Wyoming [w.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona [n.], California, Nevada, Utah

References:

• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora.
• Zacharias, E. H. & B. G. Baldwin. 2010. A molecular phylogeny of North American Atripliceae (Chenopodiaceae), with implications for floral and photosynthetic pathway evolution. Syst. Bot. 35:854.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Grayia spinosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Grayia spinosa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Grayia spinosa.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Chenopodium spinosum Hook. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Eremosemium spinosum (Hook.) Greene
  

Check other web resources for Grayia spinosa (Hook.) Moq.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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