Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Atriplex suberecta
Common name
Sprawling saltbush
Family
Chenopodiaceae
Where found
Pastures, roadsides, disturbed sites, and near streams and lakes. Western Slopes.
Notes
Annual or perennial herb or shrub, sprawling or to 0.6 m tall. Leaves alternating along the stems, 1-6 cm long, 5–25 mm wide, somewhat scurfy, upper surface sometimes green, margins toothed or with shallow and pointed lobes, and wavy or flat. Male and female flowers on the same plant, small. Male flowers with 5 'petals', lacking bracteoles. Female flowers usually with 0 'petals', but subtended by a pair of diamond-shaped bracteoles which enlarge and cover the seed case at maturity. Flowers in clusters at the bases of the leaves.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Atriplex~suberecta (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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