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Australian saltbush, berry saltbush, creeping saltbush
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red orach, red orache, redscale, tumbling orach, tumbling orache, tumbling saltweed
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| Herbs or subshrubs, perennial, decumbent-prostrate, unarmed, mainly 0.5–8 dm and spreading to 15+ dm wide, unarmed, white scurfy when young; branches not angled. |
Herbs, erect, coarse, 1–10(–20) dm. |
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simple or more commonly divaricately branching throughout, branches terete; herbage whitish scurfy to glabrate. |
many, alternate, subsessile or short petiolate; blade 1-veined, spatulate or obovate to oblong or elliptic, mainly 5–30(–40) × 2–9(–12) mm, base attenuate, margin remotely dentate to subentire, apex obtuse. |
alternate, short petiolate, blade prominently 3-veined, ovate to lanceolate, mainly 12–80 × 6–50 mm, margin irregularly sinuate-dentate and often subhastately lobed or rarely some entire, apex acute to obtuse. |
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in axillary glomerules or interrupted terminal spikes. |
in small, terminal, leaf-bracteate glomerules 1.5 mm wide. |
with 4 or 5 sepals. |
solitary or in few-flowered clusters in almost all but distalmost leaves. |
in axillary glomerules of 5–10. |
dimorphic: black, 1.5–1.7 mm, or brown, 2 mm. |
dimorphic: brown, 2–2.5 mm wide, or black, 1–2 mm wide; radicle inferior. |
bracteoles red-fleshy at maturity, sessile or short stipitate, strongly veined, rhombic, convex, 3–6.6 × 2.8–4.5 mm, united at base, margin toothed, apex obtuse to acute. |
bracteoles prominently 3–5-veined, sessile or short stipitate, (3–)4–6(–10) mm and as wide, sometimes subhastately lobed at base, conspicuously dentate, sharply tuberculate to almost smooth on faces. |
= 18. |
= 18. |
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| Flowering spring–early winter. |
Flowering mid summer–fall. |
| Saline waste places, along roads and sidewalks, in marshes, in various plant communities |
Disturbed sites, often in riparian habitats or in barnyards or on animal bed grounds, along roadsides and irrigation canals, with juniper, sagebrush, rabbitbrush, pinyon-juniper, Salsola, Chrysothamnus, Atriplex spp., and other weedy species |
| 10-1000 m (0-3300 ft) |
0-2600 m (0-8500 ft) |
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AZ; CA; DC; NM; NV; TX; UT; WA; Australia [Introduced in North America]
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AZ; CA; CO; FL; ID; MA; MI; MO; MT; ND; NE; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OR; PA; UT; WA; WI; WY; AB; BC; NS; ON; SK; Eurasia [Introduced in North America]
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The red-fleshy fruiting bracteoles are diagnostic of this introduced perennial, which is multi-stemmed from an often buried woody caudex. The Australian species Atriplex muelleri Bentham is somewhat similar. It has been has reported, but not verified, in the North American flora. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
At least some early collections were from ballast dumps at harbors on both coasts. It seems probable that the plants were quickly spread inland from initial centers of introduction by birds and more recently along railroads. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
| FNA vol. 4, p. 343. |
FNA vol. 4, p. 340. |
| Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Atriplex > sect. Semibaccata |
Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Atriplex > sect. Sclerocalymma |
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. pleiantha, A. polycarpa, A. powellii, A. prostrata, A. pusilla, A. rosea, A. saccaria, 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. pleiantha, A. polycarpa, A. powellii, A. prostrata, A. pusilla, 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. flagellaris |
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| R. Brown: Prodr., 406. (1810) |
Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 2: 1493. (1763) |
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