The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Key to KOCHIA

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Annual; lower cauline leaves short-petioled, generally 3–5-veined below middle
 K. scoparia
  1' Perennial or subshrub; leaves sessile, vein 1 or obscure
 
    2. Stems many from base, generally simple, glabrous to finely white-tomentose; leaves generally overlapping
 K. americana
    2' Stems 1–few from base, generally branched throughout, gray- to brown-puberulent; leaves not overlapping
 K. californica

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