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|accepted_name=Atriplex tatarica
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1053. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Tatarian orach
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Atriplex;Atriplex subg. Atriplex;Atriplex sect. Sclerocalymma;Atriplex tatarica
|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. Sclerocalymma]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Atriplex tatarica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 293, 326
|treatment_page=page 341
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> much branched, forming tangled or spreading masses. <b>Stems</b> with branches divaricate or ascending, terete or obtusely angled, 2–10(–15) dm, sparsely scurfy when young. <b>Leaves</b> alternate (or the proximalmost opposite), long petiolate becoming nearly sessile distally, blade ovate to triangular, 15–50(–60) × 10–40 mm, base subhastate or cuneate, margin deeply or shallowly sinuate-dentate with acute or obtuse teeth, apex acute or obtuse, distalmost bracteate blades becoming entire and linear or oblong-linear. <b>Staminate</b> flowers in glomerules borne in slender, naked or sparingly bracteate (at base), mostly interrupted simple or paniculate spikes, calyx 5-cleft. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers fascicled in distal axils. <b>Fruiting</b> bracteoles strongly 3-veined and reticulate, sessile or short stipitate, ovate-rhombic or subflabelliform, 4–8 × 3–7 mm, moderately compressed, united from narrowed base to middle, margin broad, foliaceous, coarsely dentate, indurate at maturity, faces tuberculate or smooth. <b>Seeds</b> brown, 1.5–2 mm; radicle inferior, ascending.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Atlantic and Gulf coasts, ballast and waste grounds
|elevation=0-50 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Fla.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;Pa.;Europe.
|discussion=<p>H. M. Hall and F. E. Clements (1923) treated <i>Atriplex tatarica</i> at specific level with the above distribution (as an introduced ballast plant of rare occurrence), but did not recognize the closely similar <i>A. laciniata</i>, which is currently the species recognized for coastal eastern America. They evidently interpreted <i>A. tatarica</i> to include A. lampa Gillies as identified by P. C. Standley (1916). <i>Atriplex</i> lampa is a shrubby species from South America and does not figure in consideration of North American taxa. <i>Atriplex tatarica</i> includes a complex of forms and varieties in Flora URSS (M. M. Iljin 1936). In Flora Europaea (P. Aellen 1964b) <i>A. tatarica</i> and <i>A. laciniata</i> are separated in the key by the glomerules of <i>A. tatarica</i> being borne in terminal, leafless, often long panicles, whereas those of <i>A. laciniata</i> are borne axillary or in leafy clusters. The species differ otherwise in stature, <i>A. laciniata</i> being a dwarf plant up to 30 cm and with small leaves, <i>A. tatarica</i> being a robust annual up to 150 cm, and with large leaves. The illustration by Hall and Clements (fig. 38) shows a plant with leafy panicle.</p><!--
--><p><i>Atriplex tatarica</i> has been ignored by H. A. Gleason and A. Cronquist (1991) and by all other authors of floras covering the northeastern United States.</p>
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name=Atriplex tatarica
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Atlantic and Gulf coasts, ballast and waste grounds
|elevation=0-50 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Fla.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;Pa.;Europe.
|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/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_646.xml
|genus=Atriplex
|subgenus=Atriplex subg. Atriplex
|section=Atriplex sect. Sclerocalymma
|species=Atriplex tatarica
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