Kochia americana

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Kochia americana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Subfamily: Chenopodioideae
Genus: Kochia
Species: K. americana
Binomial name
Kochia americana
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Kochia americana (syn. Bassia americana) is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common name green molly. It is native to the western United States from California to Montana to Texas, where it grows in dry, alkaline soils such as alkali flats and desert washes. This is a squat perennial herb or subshrub growing many sprawling, mostly unbranched stems to a maximum height near 40 centimeters. The stems are covered in small, fleshy, knobby leaves less than 2 centimeters long. The stems and foliage are sometimes slightly hairy. White-woolly flowers appear singly or in small clusters.

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