DIVERSITY OF LIFE

TOMPKINS COUNTY FLORA

Bassia scoparia (L.) A. Scott	Mitchell NY NYFA TC USDA NY accepted no accepted

Burningbush, Kochia, Mexican Summer-cypress
Amaranthaceae

CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: In cinders near the heating plant, Agricultural College, Ithaca, 1923 (S.H. Burnham); probably not established. Adventive from Eurasia. As var. trichophila: Garbage dump at Dwyer Pond; Dryden Road, Ithaca; lighthouse road, Ithaca; probably not established. Escaped from cultivation. Native of Eurasia.

BH SPECIMENS FOR Bassia scoparia (this list may be incomplete)

Ithaca , Stewart Park entrance, gravelly disturbed and robably salted bare soil, 5 Aug 1982, Wesley 1558 (BH 12149);

Town of Ithaca, junction of Judd Falls Road and Rte. 366, disturbed gravelly roadside, 1`.8 m tall, 23 Nov 1982, Wesley FRW1538 (BH 12148);

Town of Ithaca, jct. of Judd Falls Road and Rte. 366, disturbed gravelly roadside, 1.3 m tall, 23 Nov 1982, Wesley FRW1536 (BH 12147);

Ithaca, Cornell University campus, College of Agriculture heating plant, cinders, 12 Sep 1923, Burnham 15061 (BH 1070);

Ithaca, city dump, Lighthouse Road, 22 Sep 1921, Burnham & Wilson 13940 (BH 1068);

Ithaca, Dryden Road, roadside, 25 Sep 1914, Eames 2242 (BH 1069);

Ithaca, Cornell University Campus, S side of Goldwin Smith Hall, 6 Oct 1917, Gershoy (BH 1071);

Dryden, about 3 miles E of Ithaca, 78 Dodge Road, in collector's back yard in the vicinity of his winter bird feeder, weed, 28 Aug 1982, Hyypio 2509 (BH 15332);

Ithaca, Lehigh Railroad yard, along tracks, 29 Aug 1941, Muenscher & Winne 20381 (BH 15331);

Town of Ithaca, jct. of Judd Falls Road and Rte. 366, disturbed gravelly roadside, 1.3 m tall, 23 Nov 1982, Wesley FRW1535 (BH 12146);

Town of Ithaca, jct. of Judd Falls Road and Rte. 366, disturbed gravelly roadside, 1.3 m tall, 23 Nov 1982, Wesley FRW1537 (BH 12145);

Ithaca, Cornell University Campus, along W side of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, new lower wing, dry exposed soil, 24 Aug 1982, Wesley FRW1435 (BH 1067);

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