OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Atriplex pentandra   FAMILY Chenopodiaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Atriplex cristata   FAMILY Chenopodiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Atriplex mucronata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 4 (2003)

Atriplex pentandra

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Atriplex cristata

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Atriplex arenaria

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 064-04-001:

Atriplex arenaria   FAMILY Chenopodiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Atriplex arenaria

 

COMMON NAME:
Seabeach Orach


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image of Atriplex pentandra, Seabeach Orach

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_atar_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Atriplex pentandra   FAMILY Chenopodiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Atriplex cristata   FAMILY Chenopodiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Atriplex mucronata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 4
Atriplex pentandra

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Atriplex cristata

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Atriplex arenaria

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 064-04-001:
Atriplex arenaria   FAMILY Chenopodiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Atriplex arenaria

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4852

Forb
Annual/Perennial
Monoecious

Habitat: Ocean beaches, island-end flats, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon

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LEAVES:
Simple
Lowermost opposite, others alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Calyx lobes green-keeled
5 sepals in staminate flowers, absent in pistillate flowers
Petals absent
5 stamens in staminate flowers
Unisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Utricle

 

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