Atriplex lindleyi

Lindley's saltbush

Family: Chenopodiaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Lindley's saltbush is a naturalized perennial herb found in southern coastal California in open, disturbed places at elevations below 40 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces green to white-scaled leaves with small, inconspicuous flowers. Growing with decumbent to erect branches 10 to 40 centimeters tall, it has brittle stems that become glabrous with age. Its leaves are oblanceolate to diamond-shaped, 8 to 30 millimeters long, with entire to coarsely wavy-toothed edges and a tapered base. The plant produces two distinct types of seeds, approximately 1 to 1.5 millimeters long, ranging in color from black to red-brown.

Habitat: Open, disturbed places, fields

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: < 40 m

Bioregions: s SCo

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