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Belgian orach, frosted orache
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four-corners orach
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| Herbs, procumbent, many branched, alternate except basally, 0.06–3 dm. |
Herbs, branching from base, mainly 0.5–1.5 dm, glabrous or sparingly scurfy. |
reddish or yellowish, smooth or subangular. |
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with blade ovate to lance-ovate or lanceolate to oblong, 15–45 mm, large basal lobes, obtuse, cuneate to a short petiole, margin sinuate-dentate, scurfy on both sides. |
alternate to subopposite, petiolate; blade ovate to suborbiculate, 5–18(–20) mm, about as wide, margin entire, apex obtuse to acute. |
in glomerules in distal leaf axils, axillary or in short terminal spikes. |
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in short terminal spikes. |
monomorphic, light brown, 3.5–4 mm wide; radicle inferior. |
falling at maturity, black, 1.5 mm, shining, smooth. |
bracteoles whitish green, sessile or subsessile, broadly rhombic, (4–)6–7(–8) mm, thickened at base, becoming scaly in age, cartilaginous in basal 1/2, lateral angles strongly produced and with margin mostly entire, faces smooth or irregular, pointed, or flattened and winglike tubercles in basal 1/2. |
bracteoles short stipitate, compressed, 3–7 mm wide and about as long, entire; perianth consisting of 5 hyaline, sparsely ciliate scales 1–1.2 mm. |
= 18. |
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| Flowering summer–fall. |
Flowering late summer–fall. |
| Sand, cobble on more or less protected beaches, on Zostera and Fucus wrack |
Salt-desert shrub community |
| 0-50 m (0-200 ft) |
1400-1500 m (4600-4900 ft) |
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NB; NS; PE; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America] |
AZ; CO; NM; UT |
Atriplex laciniata is evidently rare in North America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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| FNA vol. 4, p. 341. |
FNA vol. 4, p. 345. |
| Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Atriplex > sect. Sclerocalymma |
Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Obione > sect. Pleianthae |
A. acanthocarpa, A. amnicola, A. argentea, A. californica, A. canescens, A. confertifolia, A. cordulata, A. coronata, A. corrugata, A. coulteri, A. covillei, A. dioica, A. elegans, A. fruticulosa, A. gardneri, A. garrettii, A. glabriuscula, A. gmelinii, A. graciliflora, A. heterosperma, A. holocarpa, A. hortensis, A. hymenelytra, A. joaquiniana, A. klebergorum, A. lentiformis, A. leucophylla, A. lindleyi, A. linearis, A. littoralis, A. matamorensis, A. mucronata, A. nudicaulis, A. nummularia, A. oblongifolia, A. obovata, A. pacifica, A. parishii, A. parryi, A. patula, A. pentandra, A. phyllostegia, A. pleiantha, A. polycarpa, A. powellii, A. prostrata, A. pusilla, A. rosea, A. saccaria, A. semibaccata, A. serenana, A. spinifera, A. suberecta, A. suckleyi, A. tatarica, A. torreyi, A. truncata, A. tularensis, A. watsonii, A. wolfii, A. wrightii |
A. acanthocarpa, A. amnicola, A. argentea, A. californica, A. canescens, A. confertifolia, A. cordulata, A. coronata, A. corrugata, A. coulteri, A. covillei, A. dioica, A. elegans, A. fruticulosa, A. gardneri, A. garrettii, A. glabriuscula, A. gmelinii, A. graciliflora, A. heterosperma, A. holocarpa, A. hortensis, A. hymenelytra, A. joaquiniana, A. klebergorum, A. laciniata, A. lentiformis, A. leucophylla, A. lindleyi, A. linearis, A. littoralis, A. matamorensis, A. mucronata, A. nudicaulis, A. nummularia, A. oblongifolia, A. obovata, A. pacifica, A. parishii, A. parryi, A. patula, A. pentandra, A. phyllostegia, A. polycarpa, A. powellii, A. prostrata, A. pusilla, A. rosea, A. saccaria, A. semibaccata, A. serenana, A. spinifera, A. suberecta, A. suckleyi, A. tatarica, A. torreyi, A. truncata, A. tularensis, A. watsonii, A. wolfii, A. wrightii |
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Proatriplex pleiantha |
| Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 1053. (1753) |
W. A. Weber: Madroño 10: 189, figs. 1, 2. (1950) |
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