garden orache

Atriplex hortensis

Member of saltbushes (genus Atriplex)
saltbush subfamily (subfamily Chenopodioideae)
amaranth family (family Amaranthaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
flowering plants (subphylum Angiospermae)

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• annual, erect, 50–180 cm tall
• leaf green, glabrous to sparsely scaly
• pistillate flowers of 2 kinds: with no bracts and 5 calyx lobes, or 2 bracts and no calyx lobes
• seeds of two kinds: horizontal, black with no bracts; or vertical, brown with 2 bracts

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Chris’s observations: none

Taxon info: iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora – FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora