Grayia spinosa (Hop sage)

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Grayia spinosa (Hook.) Moq.

Hop sage, spiny hop sage

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Atriplex grayi Collotzi ex W.A. Weber
Atriplex spinosa (Hook.) Collotzi

5/3/2018 · Barker Dam, Joshua Tree National Park, California · ≈ 5 × 3½″ (13 × 9.2 cm)

5/3/2018 · Barker Dam, Joshua Tree National Park, California · ≈ 4 × 3½″ (10 × 9.2 cm)

5/3/2018 · Barker Dam, Joshua Tree National Park, California · ≈ 6 × 4″ (14 × 10 cm)

5/3/2018 · Barker Dam, Joshua Tree National Park, California · ≈ 4½ × 4″ (12 × 11 cm)

5/3/2018 · Barker Dam, Joshua Tree National Park, California · ≈ 6 × 4″ (15 × 10 cm)

5/3/2018 · Barker Dam, Joshua Tree National Park, California · ≈ 15 × 10″ (39 × 26 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Caryophyllidae	Cacti, many other succulents, carnivorous plants, and leadworts
Order	Caryophyllales	Includes cacti, carnations, amaranths, ice plants, and many carnivorous plants
Family	Amaranthaceae	Amaranth family
Genus	Grayia	After Asa Gray (1810-1888), one of the most eminent American botanists and professor at Harvard, who played an important part in the identification of many Sierra wildflowers, and whose guides in Yosemite were John Muir and Galen Clark. More than 10,000 letters to Gray have been preserved from hundreds of correspondents including John Torrey, George Engelmann, Charles Darwin and Muir. His life’s goal was to describe all known plants of the United States, a task that no one man could ever achieve, but he dominated American botany like no other, and was honored by the naming of the genus Grayia by Sir William Hooker in Glasgow (ref. genus Grayia)
Species	spinosa	From Latin for “thorny”

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Grayia spinosa description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.