Eastern Mojave Vegetation Diagram of Polygonum kelloggii in Small (1895).  
 

 

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  Polygonaceae, Polygonum polygaloides kelloggii
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[Plate 54.]
54. Polygonum Kelloggii Greene.
Polygonum Kelloggii Greene, Fl. Francis. 134 (1891).
Polygonum coardatum var. minus Meisner in DC. Prodr. 14 : 101 (1856), not P. minus Huds.; S. Watson, Bot. King's Exp. 316.
Annual, low, slender, glabrous throughout, somewhat scurfy. Stem mostly erect, 1-5 cm. long, divergently branched from near the base, more or less four-angled, in some cases slightly winged, internodes of the branches very short; leaves linear or linear- lanceolate, .4-1 cm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, acute, sessile, crowded on the branches but spreading and not imbricated, much the same size throughout, joined to the ocreae by inconspicuous articulations; ocreae funnelform, 1-2 mm. long, oblique, thin and early lacerate ; inflorescence axillary, consisting of clusters with several flowers, almost contigu- ous on account of the very short internodes, the branches appearing like leafy racemes ; pedicels .5 mm. long; calyx green, nearly 2 mm. long, five-parted to near the base, the segments oblofig, obtuse, with whitish or cream-colored margins; stamens about five, included; style often almost wanting; achene triquetrous, 1.5 mm. long, rhombic-ovoid, light-brown, granular, somewhat striate, dull.
Washington south to California and Colorado.

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