Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Babington's Orache, Atriplex glabriuscula, Eilifleog chladaigh
Photographs: Bantry, Co. Cork

Babington's Orache
Atriplex glabriuscula
Eilifleog chladaigh
Family: Chenopodiaceae

Flowering time: July-September. Annual. Native.

Monoecious. Flowering spike often leafy, male flowers with 5 sepals and stamens, female flowers without sepals and 2 triangular bracteoles enclose ovary and fruit. Bracteoles have 2-3 small equal-sized teeth each side, fused approx halfway. Leaves tapered at base. A variable spreading, procumbent or occasionally erect plant, stems and leaves +/- mealy.

Occurs around the Irish coast on sand or shingle. Identified by Paul Green

Similar: Spear-leaved Orache, Atriplex prostrata

Babington's Orache, Atriplex glabriuscula, Eilifleog chladaigh

Babington's Orache, Atriplex glabriuscula, Eilifleog chladaigh
Babington's Orache, Atriplex glabriuscula, Eilifleog chladaigh

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