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§1 Plant

Atriplex subspicata (Nutt.) Rydb.

vernacular saline saltbush — species · Chenopodiaceae


USDA
ATSU2
GBIF
3083997 syn.
Rank
species
saline saltbush (Atriplex subspicata)
Platephotograph · Matt LavinCC BY-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Chenopodiaceae Vent.
Genus
Atriplex
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 66 counties across 11 states/territories
Legend Native · 66 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 66 counties across 11 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 2 N
California view state ↗ 8 N
Idaho view state ↗ 1 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 N
Nevada view state ↗ 6 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N
New York view state ↗ 7 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 2 N
Utah view state ↗ 21 N
Wyoming view state ↗ 13 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ATSU2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3083997 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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