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Atriplex elegans
About
Atriplex elegans is a species of saltbush known by the common name wheelscale saltbush, Mecca orach, or wheelscale. It is native to the Southwestern United States, and northern Mexico, where it grows in areas of saline or alkaline soils, such as alkali flats and desert dry lakebeds.
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Atriplex elegans
- Slug
- atriplex-elegans
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
- Genus
- Atriplex
- Species
- elegans
- Wikidata QID
- Q4817588
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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