Winterfat
Krascheninnikovia lanata
Silvery-woolly shrub whose seed heads turn the autumn plains soft and white. Exceptionally nutritious winter browse on cold, dry, alkaline rangeland. Recorded as a minor Indigenous food, without detail on which part was used.
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2–2 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- March, April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- mammals
- Landscape uses
- foundation, container
- Native states
- AZ, CA, CO, ID, KS, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY