Kochia Roth: kochia

Stanley G. Kitchen; Stephen B. Monsen

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Kochia Roth: kochia

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Authors:

Stanley G. Kitchen, Stephen B. Monsen

Year:

2008

Type:

Agricultural Handbook

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Bonner, Franklin T.; Karrfalt, Robert P., eds. The Woody Plant Seed Manual. Agric. Handbook No. 727. Washington, DC. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. p. 620-623.

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Abstract

Two woodybased non-rhizomatous sub-shrub species of kochias are found in the western United States. The widely distributed native, gray molly, and its introduced and closely related counterpart (Blackwell and others 1978), forage kochia, are found in salt-desert, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper, and dry mountain brush communities (table 1). Erect to steeply ascending annual stems growing from a woody base and long-lived prostrate branches attain heights of 5 to 50 cm for gray molly (Welch and others 1987) and 10 to 100 cm for forage kochia (Baylan 1972).

Parent Publication

The Woody Plant Seed Manual

Keywords

Kochia Roth, kochia

Citation

Kitchen, Stanley G.; Monsen, Stephen B. 2008. Kochia Roth: kochia. In: Bonner, Franklin T.; Karrfalt, Robert P., eds. The Woody Plant Seed Manual. Agric. Handbook No. 727. Washington, DC. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. p. 620-623.