Chenopodium desiccatum A. Nelson 
Bot. Gaz. 34: 362. 1902

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Etymology	dry, desiccated
Description:	Annual, densely white mealy throughout, freely branched, the branches paniculately branched, low and spreading, about 1dm high (broader than high): leaves entire, from oblong to linear, mostly acute, some of them short petioled, 1-2cm long: floriferous throughout; the small clusters in dense panicles which are naked towards the apex: calyx thickened with the dense mealiness, brittle, enclosing the fruit, the large (more than 1mm) shining-black seed easily separable from the pericarp. - A. Nelson
Distribution:	USA: CO, MT, NE, ND, SD, WY
Synonyms:	Chenopodium leptophyllum (Moq.) Nutt. ex S. Watson var. oblongifolium S. Watson Chenopodium oblongifolium (S. Watson) Rydb. Chenopodium pratericola Rydb. ssp. desiccatum (A. Nelson) Aellen Chenopodium pratericola Rydb. var. oblongifolium (S. Watson) Wahl Further information on the taxonomy of Chenopodium desiccatum can be found: Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society: The taxonomy of Chenopodium desiccatum and C. nitens, sp. nov. 141(2), 2014, pp. 161–172
Type:	E. Nelson 5048, 12 August 1898, RM 12545
Website Info:	We thank all the Herbaria who have very generously have allowed us to display their images. All images with a RED outline were either provided by the linked Herbaria or given us access to their website to obtain such images, or they were scanned while on loan to us. Please see the credits and further information by clicking on the Herbaria acronyms. The specimens’ images without such red outline, were taken by us during our research visits. All fruit and seed images have been taken with the Visionary Digital Microscope System, Dun, Inc. Palmyra, VA by Lee Simpson at San Diego State University. Website development by Lee Simpson. Contact: sdsuherbarium@sdsu.edu

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Habitat and Field Images

Holotype		Isotype
RM 12545 E. Nelson 5048		RM 8460 E. Nelson 5048

RM 253816     RM 225480 RSA 116196 UC 96706

NY 990874 RM 392133

NY RM 392133

RM 253816     ARIZ 182645 ASC 21630 PAC 82581

NY 1795683 (left only) US 43923 These Chenopodium desiccatum specimens were collected at Devil's Lake, North Dakota during Nicollet's North Western Expedition in 1839, and thought then that it could probably be a new Chenopodium species.

NY RM 392128

NY (left only) RM 338432 (top and right only)

COLO 200111 Weber 12923		GH Porter 9692		MONT 49812 Booth 55787		MONTU 39104 Munson 2223

NY L.R. Moyer 149		NY J.M. Bates 16-97		NY Tweedy Sept. 1899		NY St. Agricultural College 2204 Aug. 17 1898

PAC 86879 Crawford 368B		PAC 86974 Crawford 422A		PAC 86976 Crawford 420		PAC 86977 Crawford 508

RM 172072 Robert M. Muir 237		RM 172073 Robert M. Muir 123		RM 262456 Finzel 360B		RM 263104 Porter

RM 375393 Hollis Marriott 5275		RM 392122 Crawford 369		RM 392124 Crawford 841		RM 392146 Crawford 418

RM 392412 Eppson 9/3/1951		RM 398383 Allen 19		RM 639138 Cramer 10168b		RM 704733 Nelson 34228

UC 176110 (right only) Porter 8869