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Atriplex coulteri
Coulter's saltbush is a low, perennial shrub-like herb native to coastal southern California and Baja California, growing in salty, alkaline soils such as ocean bluffs. It thrives in full sun, sandy or saline soil and needs very little water once established.
Atriplex coulteri is a species of saltbush known by the common names Coulter's saltbush and Coulter's orache.
It is native to coastal southern California and northern Baja California, where it is quite rare. It grows in areas of saline and alkaline soils, such as ocean bluffs.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Atriplex coulteri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
