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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Atriplex semibaccata
|accepted_authority=R. Brown
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.,
|place=406. 1810
|year=1810
}}
|common_names=Creeping saltbush;berry saltbush
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Atriplex flagellaris
|authority=Wooton & Standley
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Atriplex;Atriplex subg. Atriplex;Atriplex sect. Semibaccata;Atriplex semibaccata
|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. Semibaccata]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Atriplex semibaccata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 325, 340
|treatment_page=page 343
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>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. <b>Leaves</b> 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. <b>Staminate</b> flowers in small, terminal, leaf-bracteate glomerules 1.5 mm wide. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers solitary or in few-flowered clusters in almost all but distalmost leaves. <b>Fruiting</b> 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. <b>Seeds</b> dimorphic: black, 1.5–1.7 mm, or brown, 2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early winter.
|habitat=Saline waste places, along roads and sidewalks, in marshes, in various plant communities
|elevation=10-1000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;D.C.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Wash.;Australia.
|discussion=<p>The red-fleshy fruiting bracteoles are diagnostic of this introduced perennial, which is multi-stemmed from an often buried woody caudex.</p><!--
--><p>The Australian species <i>Atriplex</i> muelleri Bentham is somewhat similar. It has been has reported, but not verified, in the North American flora.</p>
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name=Atriplex semibaccata
|authority=R. Brown
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Atriplex flagellaris
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early winter.
|habitat=Saline waste places, along roads and sidewalks, in marshes, in various plant communities
|elevation=10-1000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;D.C.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Wash.;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.,
|publication year=1810
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_652.xml
|genus=Atriplex
|subgenus=Atriplex subg. Atriplex
|section=Atriplex sect. Semibaccata
|species=Atriplex semibaccata
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