Taxon: Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Atriplex canescens var. canescens (9 accessions)
• Atriplex canescens var. gigantea (no accessions)
• Atriplex canescens var. laciniata (6 accessions)

Common names:

• Caleb saltbush   (Source: F NAmer ) – English   [Atriplex canescens var. laciniata]
  
• four-wing saltbush   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• giant four-wing saltbush   (Source: CPC Nat Coll [http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/collection/CPC_ViewProfile.asp?CPCNum=517]) – English   [Atriplex canescens var. gigantea]
  
• Lynndyl saltbush   (Source: F NAmer ) – English   [Atriplex canescens var. gigantea]
  
• shadscale   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• cenizo   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – Spanish
  
• chamere   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• chamizo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• chamiso   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – unknown
  
• chamiza   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – unknown
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (for rangeland restoration fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (for rangeland restoration fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  
• Animal food: forage   (for livestock and big-game browse fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Atriplex canescens from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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)
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta [s.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas [w.], Nebraska [w.], North Dakota [w.], Oklahoma, South Dakota
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Mexico [n.]

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt

References:

• Bassett, I. J. et al. 1983. The genus Atriplex in Canada. Monogr. Res. Branch Canada Dept. Agric. 31:60–64.
• Beatley, J. C. 1976. Vascular plants of the Nevada test site and central-southern Nevada.
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Harrington, H. 1954. Manual of the plants of Colorado.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McNeill, J. et al. 1983. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Atriplex L. (Chenopodiaceae). Taxon 32:553–554.
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora.
• Munz, P. A. 1974. A flora of southern California.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Standley, P. C. 1920. Trees and shrubs of Mexico. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 23:1-1721.
• Stutz, H. C. 1975. The holotype of Atriplex canescens is not A. canescens; or is it? Proc. Utah Acad. Sci. 52:65.
• Welsh, S. L. & C. Crompton. 1995. Names and types in perennial Atriplex Linnaeus (Chenopodiaceae) in North America selectively exclusive of Mexico. Great Basin Naturalist 55:324.
• Welsh, S. L. & G. Moore. 1973. Utah Plants.
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1987. A Utah flora. Great Basin Naturalist Mem. 9.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Atriplex canescens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Atriplex canescens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Atriplex canescens.

Synonyms:

• Calligonum canescens Pursh [≡ Atriplex canescens var. canescens]
  

Check other web resources for Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt.:

• 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.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Fruit with wings removed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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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