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Atriplex rosea L.

Tumbling saltweed (en), Arroche rosée (fr), Arroche rose (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Amaranthaceae > Atriplex

Characteristics

Monoecious, erect, bushy, ± grey or whitish farinose annual to c. 1 m tall. Stems terete or nearly so, pale yellowish, stout, woody towards base. Petioles to c. 1 cm long; lamina 2.5 × 1.5-4 cm, rhombic-triangular or rhombic-ovate, to lanceolate towards stem apices, deeply and irregularly dentate; base narrow-to broad-cuneate; apex acute; infl. lvs similar but smaller. Fls in axillary glomerules and short terminal spikes; spikes leafy almost to the apex. ♂ fls maturing well before ♀; perianth c. 1 mm long, pale with indistinct margin; segments incurved. ♀ fls: bracteoles c. 1.5 mm long at anthesis, rhombic-triangular or rhombic, united below middle, dentate (teeth 1 or few on each side), strongly accrescent. Fruiting bracteoles 3-4 × 3-4 mm, conspicuously veined, indurate towards base, with several tubercle appendages around middle. Fr. 1.5-2 mm diam., circular or nearly so, laterally flattened; pericarp easily removed. Testa brown.
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Erect, usually much-branched, to 2 m; lvs lanceolate to rhombic-ovate, to 7 cm, deeply sinuate-dentate, thinly gray-scurfy; staminate fls in the uppermost axils and in terminal spikes less than 1 cm; pistillate fls axillary; fruiting bracteoles broadly ovate to rhombic, 4–10 mm long and wide, conspicuously dentate, united to the middle, the central part indurate; tubercles none to several; veins conspicuous, many with free tips; 2n=18. Native of Eurasia, established as a weed in alkaline soil in w. U.S. and occasionally found in waste places in our range.
An annual herb. It grows 30-50 cm tall. They plant is grey and scaly. The leaves are oval and 2-4 cm long by 5-12 mm wide. The flowers are in spikes at the end of shoots and also along the sides. The seeds are round but flattened. They have bracts around them.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination anemogamy
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Mature height (meter) 0.55 - 0.7
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Photosynthetic pathway c4

Environment

Weed-infested places and chalky ground. A weed of disturbed sites, often in riparian habitats or in barnyards or on animal bed grounds, along roadsides and irrigation canals.
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It is a temperate plant. It can grow in salty soils. It can grow in arid places. In Argentina it grows between 500-1,000 m above sea level.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 4-6
Soil acidity 3-9
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

Usage

The young shoots and leaves are cooked and eaten. They are also used as flavouring in relishes and chutneys. The leaves are used for sarma in Turkey. They are rolled around a filling of rice or minced meat.
Uses dye environmental use fodder food forage medicinal poison
Edible leaves seeds shoots
Therapeutic use Sclerosis (unspecified)
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Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants are grown from seeds.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 9 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 12
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Images

Leaf

Atriplex rosea leaf picture by Auesha Olga (cc-by-sa)
Atriplex rosea leaf picture by Joseph Bulot (cc-by-sa)
Atriplex rosea leaf picture by Страхил Иванов (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Atriplex rosea flower picture by Taylor LG (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Atriplex rosea world distribution map, present in Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Canada, Switzerland, Chile, Cyprus, Germany, Algeria, Egypt, Spain, Estonia, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Georgia, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Latvia, Morocco, Mexico, North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Paraguay, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:164113-1
WFO ID wfo-0000556540
COL ID JLNW
BDTFX ID 8451
INPN ID 85114
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Atriplex rosea Atriplex alba Atriplex arenicola Atriplex besseriana Atriplex graeci Atriplex verticillata Chenopodium roseum Atriplex polysperma Atriplex foliolosa Atriplex foliosa Atriplex spatiosa Atriplex monoica Atriplex axillaris Atriplex albicans Atriplex argentea Atriplex monoica Atriplex terraconensis Atriplex arenicola var. albescens Atriplex rosea subsp. foliolosa Atriplex rosea subsp. terraconensis
WorldFloraDB 2024