Neomonolepis

Neomonolepis spathulata is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae. It is the only species in the genus Neomonolepis. It is an annual native to Baja California, California, Nevada, and Oregon in western North America.^[1]

Neomonolepis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Amaranthaceae
Subfamily:	Chenopodioideae
Tribe:	Dysphanieae
Genus:	Neomonolepis Sukhor. (2018)
Species:	N. spathulata
Binomial name
Neomonolepis spathulata (A.Gray) Sukhor. (2018)
Synonyms[1]
Blitum spathulatum (A.Gray) S.Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch (2012) Monolepis spathulata A.Gray (1868)

It is an herbaceous annual, growing 2 to 20 cm tall. Plants may be trailing or erect. leaves are fleshy and entire, 3 to 25 mm long, and narrowly oblanceolate to spoon-shaped. Flowers appear in June to September, and grow in clusters of 4 to 15 or more.^[2]

Typical habitats are moist mountain streambanks and meadows from 2,000 to 3,450 meters elevation. In California it grows on the eastern and western slopes of the high Sierra Nevada and in the San Bernardino Mountains.^[2]