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Atriplex lentiformis
Also called Quailbush
Big saltbush is a spreading, highly branched, salt-tolerant shrub of dry and saline sites, reaching 1 to 3 m tall and often wider. It thrives in full sun and very well-drained, alkaline or saline soil, and needs little water once established.
Atriplex lentiformis (quail bush, big saltbrush, big saltbush, quailbrush, lenscale, len-scale saltbush and white thistle) is a species of saltbush.
Atriplex lentiformis is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in habitats with saline such as salt flats and dry lake beds, coastline, and desert scrub. It can also be found in nonsaline soils on riverbanks and woodland.
This saltbush species, A. lentiformis, and Atriplex canescens are the food plants for the saltbush sootywing Hesperopsis alpheus, a butterfly.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Atriplex lentiformis 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.
