Scientific name: Atriplex glabriuscula Edmonston
Common name: Babington's Orache

Description
Habit: Annual, with mealy stems and leaves, to 25 cm high.
Stems: Spreading, trailing, semi-erect or more rarely erect.
Leaves: Mealy, with relatively long leaf-stalks, not strongly tapered at the base, triangular.
Flowers: In loose panicles, unisexual; male with 5 sepals and stamens; female without sepals but with 2 broadly triangular and thick bracteoles, united about halfway to the base, bearing small more or less evenly sized teeth, enlarging and enclosing the ovary and fruit; styles 2.
Fruits: A small nut.

Habitat: Sandy and stony seashores and margins of salt-marshes.
Distribution: Occasional, locally frequent.

Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No

Family Chenopodiaceae
Genus Atriplex
Species Atriplex glabriuscula

Scientific synonyms and common names

Babington's Orache [English]
Orache, Babington's [English]

Stace, C. (1997) New Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press, The Bath Press, UK.

Webb, D. A. and M. J. P. Scannell (1983) Flora of Connemara and the Burren. Royal Dublin Society and Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Webb, D. A., J. Parnell and D. Doogue (1996) An Irish Flora. Dundalgan Press, Dundalk.

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