Sarcobatus baileyi
NV: Mineral Co.: East of Yerlington
Sep 2006

Sarcobatus baileyi
NV: Washoe Co., Spjut 15016
Sep 2002

Sarcobatus baileyi
NV: Mineral Co.: East of Yerlington
8 June 2007

Sarcobatus vermiculatus
CA: Inyo Co.: Owens Valley, SW of Bishop. 
Oct 2006

Sarcobatus vermiculatus
CA: Inyo Co.: Owens Valley, South of Bishop, on sand dunes, 26 Aug 2009
 

Sarcobatus vermiculatus
UT: Black Rock Desert W of Fillmore.
Spjut 11125, Sep. 2007

Sarcobatus vermiculatus
NV: Mineral Co.: East of Hawthorne. 
Sep 2006

Sarcobatus species complex Alliance?

Sarcobatus sp. grayish green (close-up)
NM: Rocky Mts., Carson Natl. Forest, .
Mastenas Mesa, margin of pinyon-juniper woodland with sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) on alkaline soil, 2100–2200 m. 23 July 2008
 

Sarcobatus cf. vermiculatus yellowish green
habit and (close-up).

NM: Rocky Mts., Carson Natl. Forest, .
Mastenas Mesa, margin of pinyon-juniper woodland with sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) on alkaline soil, 2100–2200 m. 23 July 2008

Trees and Shrubs of Kern County (Sep 2012)

Sarcobatus vermiculatus (Batis vermiculata Hooker 1838) Torrey 1848. Greasewood. Densely branched spiny shrub with conspicuous green foliage for much of the season, mostly 1–2 m in California, larger arborescent forms in the Rocky Mts. region; main branches appearing slightly zigzag, branchlets often short and helically disposed, ending in a spine; leaves appearing needle-like from a distance, alternate, juicy, erect, 1–4 cm, nearly terete (almost round in x-section); flowers May–Aug, male and females either separate on the same or different plants, the males with only stamens in terminal short “catkin-like” clusters, to 3+ cm long, female solitary in leaf axils within a sac-like calyx that expands into horizontal skirt in fruit.  A dominant shrub of alkaline sandy soils in the semi-arid region of western North America. Greasewood scrub recognized in MCV2 when dominant and  >2% absolute cover. Type from barren grounds of the Columbia. Kern Co.: Infrequent, Edwards Air Force Base, East of Buckhorn Lake on Branch Park Road, 1 mile west of Branch Park, and also reported from near Bakersfield (CCH).