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Ambrosia chamissonia (Silver beachweed)

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Copyright © 2006 Mary Jo Adams

 

In California this species often has a dense coating of fine silvery-white hair.  Further north, it may lack much of the hairy coating giving it more of a gray-green appearance.  Due to this variation, some scientists have assigned the less hairy plant the subspecies name A. chamissonis bipinnatisecta.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This page was created by Mary Jo Adams on 8/21/06.

 

 

photo of silver beachweed

photo of silver beachweed

photo of silver beachweed

 

photo of silver beachweed

 

photo of silver beachweed