Chenopodium hians Standl. 
N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 21: 16. 1916.

Ill-scented erect annual, 4-8 dm. high, usually simple at the base, or with a few short slender weak branches, sparsely branched above, the branches stout, erect or nearly so, copiously and coarsely farinose, obscurely and obtusely angled; petioles stout, half as long as the blades or shorter; leaf-blades elliptic-oblong, oblong, or narrowly lance-oblong, 1.2-3 cm. long, 3-8 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the apex, very shortly apiculate, cunéate at the base, green and glabrate on the upper surface, densely and rather coarsely white-farinose beneath, thick, the upper blades sometimes linear; glomerules large, in very stout, dense, erect, axillary or narrowly paniculate spikes; calyx densely farinose, cleft nearly to the base, the lobes roundedoblong or ovate, obtusely carínate, yellowish, tinged with green, erect at maturity and exposing the fruit; pericarp closely adherent; seed horizontal, 0.8-1 mm. broad, black, shining, nearly smooth, the margin obtuse. -Standley

The fruit is small, conical below, with highly patterned pericarp of minute brown and white papillae.

US: AZ, CO, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY, Canada: British Columbia, Yukon Territory

RM 609096
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