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Atriplex laciniata
Also called Belgian orach, Belgian Saltbush, Belgian Orache
Frosted orache is a silvery-white annual that sprawls over sandy beaches, mainly on Atlantic coasts of western Europe. It is a pioneer plant of the top of the beach, so it grows best in full sun in sandy, free-draining, salty or open ground.
Atriplex laciniata, generally known as frosted orache, is a silvery-white sprawling plant that occurs on sandy beaches, mainly along the western coasts of Europe, and (much more sparsely) in the Mediterranean. It has been introduced to North America, probably with ballast on ships, but it remains very rare. It is a characteristic annual plant of strandline vegetation at the top of beaches and one of the earliest colonisers of bare sand.
Frosted orache is quite a rare plant, globally, being largely restricted to the Atlantic coasts of western Europe - mainly around Britain and Ireland, from northern Spain to Denmark and Sweden. In Norway it is mainly on some southern beaches, and there are small outlying populations on the Mediterranean coasts of Spain, France and Corsica.
Tubercled saltbush · Swamp Saltbush · Fan Saltbush · Silverscale saltbush · Native Orache · Atriplex billardierei · Silver saltbush · Fourwing saltbush · Gray saltbush · Flat-topped saltbush · Shadscale saltbush · Heartscale
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Atriplex laciniata 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.
