Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Common Orache, Atriplex patula, Eilifleog
Photographs: Co. Cork

Common Orache
Atriplex patula
Eilifleog
Family: Chenopodiaceae

Flowering time: July-October. Annual. Introduced

Inconspicuous greenish flowers followed by triangular fruit bracteoles. Diamond-shaped lower leaves, the tips toothed and sharply pointed. Upper leaves are linear-oblong. Very variable with erect or prostrate growth, 15-60cm. Hybridization occurs.

Frequent on fertile waste ground, arable land, salted roadsides, beaches and salt marshes.

Similar: Spear-leaved Orache, A. prostrata

Common Orache, Atriplex patula, Eilifleog

Common Orache, Atriplex patula, Eilifleog
Common Orache, Atriplex patula, Eilifleog

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