Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Amaranthaceae/Amaranthacées - Amaranth Family
Atriplex prostrata Boucher ex DC. [X]
En: creeping saltbush, triangle orache, spearleaf orache
Fr: arroche hastée
Provincial Status: X [excluded]
Range: Temp. NA, cosmopolitan; native NS-QC, intr. in ON-BC; hal.

              [=Atriplex hastata L., nom. rej.]
              [=Atriplex hastata L. var. prostrata (Boucher ex DC.) Lange]
              [=Atriplex patula L. subsp. hastata (L.) H.M.Hall & Clem.]
              [=Atriplex patula L. var. hastata (L.) Gray]
              [=Atriplex patula L. var. prostrata (Boucher ex DC.) Mert. & W.D.J.Koch]
              [=Atriplex triangularis Willd.]
              [=Chenopodium hastatum Dumort. 1865, nom. illeg. hom., non Phil. 1860]

[Atriplex prostrata Boucher ex DC. is the species most commonly found in North America, but misidentified as Atriplex hastata; true Atriplex hastata is a European species, which has not yet spread to North America (Bassett et al. 1983).  Atriplex prostrata is known only as far east in NA as Nova Scotia.  NL reports of Atriplex hastata refer primarily to Atriplex patula or A. glabriuscula var. glabriuscula.]

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