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Label

Accession No. 11687 
Family Chenopodiaceae 
Species Sarcocornia utahensis (Tidestr.) A.J. Scott
Common name "Utah swampfire"
Collector Information D.M. Barnes  (5134)  08 June 2006
Geography United States,  Utah, Tooele County
Lat./Long. 40°  55' 2" N, 114°  4 ' 42" W at 4319 feet (1316 m)
Locality Pilot Range, salt flats SE of Miners Canyon. 
Ecology salt desert shrub community, saline mud flats. 
Climate NCDC temperatures, daily high (red), daily average (green) and daily low (blue), from 1970 to 2000 at this location.   NCDC average monthly precipitation from 1970 to 2000 at this location.

Taxonomy


Synonyms recognized by ITIS (bold taxon is currently accepted):

     Sarcocornia utahensis (Tidestrom) A.J. Scott
     Salicornia utahensis Tidestrom
     Sarcocornia pacifica var. utahensis (Tidestrom) Munz

Common Name(s): Utah swampfire.

Taxonomic Hierarchy: (ITIS TSN=505013, click for more information and references)

        Kingdom: Plantae
            Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
                Division: Magnoliophyta
                    Class: Magnoliopsida
                        Subclass: Caryophyllidae
                            Order: Caryophyllales
                                Family: Chenopodiaceae
                                    Genus: Sarcocornia
                                        Species: Sarcocornia utahensis
                                                                                            

Images

Available images of this specimen (click to view):
specimen image: 11687s1.jpg specimen image: 11687d1.jpg

Images of other samples of the same species:
specimen image: 03941s1.jpg 
03941

Nearby Accessions


Other accessions in the database collected near this one:

Accession Name Dist., dir.
11688 Distichlis spicata      "saltgrass" same section

Locale


Nearby locations from the USGS Geographic Name Information System (GNIS) database:

Name County Dist., dir. Elevation (ft.) 7.5' Quad Name
Salt Spring (Spring) Elko County, NV 783 ft. NE 4278  Miners Canyon 
Little Salt Spring (Spring) Elko County, NV 2 mi. S 4282  Miners Canyon 
Pilot Creek Valley (Valley) Elko County, NV 2.7 mi. S   Pilot Peak NW 
Window Rock (Pillar) Elko County, NV 2.4 mi. W 4813  Miners Canyon 
Leppy Reservoir (Reservoir) Elko County, NV 3.4 mi. S 4311  Leppy Peak 
Miners Canyon (Valley) Elko County, NV 3.8 mi. N   Miners Canyon 
Halls Meadow (Flat) Tooele County, UT 4.2 mi. NE 4259  Miners Canyon 
Miners Spring (Spring) Elko County, NV 5.3 mi. N 6408  Miners Canyon 
Willow Canyon (Valley) Tooele County, UT 5.5 mi. NE 5036  Miners Canyon 
Willow Canyon (Valley) Elko County, NV 5.6 mi. N   Pilot Peak 

Links

Taxon Links for species Sarcocornia utahensis  (Tidestr.) A.J. Scott

CalPhotos, Berkeley Digital Library Project

CNPS Manual of California Vegetation Database

USDA Plants database
University of Washington Herbarium: Plants of Washington (images)

Texas A&M University: Image Library (images)

Lady Bird Johnson's Wildflower Center

Google Images

External link to this species in the UVU Herbarium:
http://herbarium.UVU.edu/virtual/search.asp?taxon=Sarcocornia+utahensis

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