View source for Atriplex hortensis

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Atriplex hortensis
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1053. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Garden orach
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Atriplex nitens
|authority=Schkuhr
}}
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Atriplex;Atriplex subg. Atriplex;Atriplex sect. Atriplex;Atriplex hortensis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Atriplex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Atriplex subg. Atriplex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Atriplex sect. Atriplex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Atriplex hortensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 322, 323
|treatment_page=page 332
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> green to yellowish or reddish, 5–15(–25) dm, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> erect, mostly branched. <b>Leaves</b> mostly opposite or mostly alternate; petiole 0.3–4+ cm; blade green on both sides, ovate or ovate-lanceolate to cordate-hastate at base, 15–180 × 8–135 mm, margin entire or more rarely irregularly toothed or lobed, apex attenuate to acuminate or rounded. <b>Inflorescences</b> of spikes disposed in leafless panicles. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 5-merous. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers dimorphic, some ebracteolate and with 5-parted perianth, others without perianth enclosed by a pair of sessile or very shortly stipitate bracteoles. <b>Fruiting</b> bracteoles samaralike, orbicular to oval or ovate, compressed, 5–18 mm, united only at base, entire, faces smooth. <b>Seeds</b> of ebracteate flowers black, horizontal, convex, 1–2 mm wide, lustrous; those of bracteolate flowers olivaceous brown, vertical, flat, 3–4.5 mm wide, dull. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Roadsides, canal and stream banks, lake shores, disturbed sites and gardens
|elevation=0-2200 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Mass.;Minn.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Asia.
|discussion=<p><i>Atriplex hortensis</i> has been widely grown as a potherb, has escaped from cultivation, and is now established especially in moist ruderal sites. It is easily distinguished by its rounded, samaralike, entire, and smooth fruiting bracteoles, and the presence of two kinds of pistillate flowers, the one enclosed by bracteoles and lacking sepals, the other without bracteoles but subtended by sepals.</p><!--
--><p><i>Atriplex</i> nitens (see list of excluded taxa) is distinguished from <i>A. hortensis</i> in Flora Europea (P. Aellen 1964b) by having leaf blades densely white scurfy beneath, the distal surface lustrous, as opposed to green and dull for <i>A. hortensis</i>. Occasional specimens, treated here as <i>A. hortensis</i>, have leaves somewhat scurfy.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Atriplex hortensis
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Atriplex nitens
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Roadsides, canal and stream banks, lake shores, disturbed sites and gardens
|elevation=0-2200 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Mass.;Minn.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_627.xml
|genus=Atriplex
|subgenus=Atriplex subg. Atriplex
|section=Atriplex sect. Atriplex
|species=Atriplex hortensis
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