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Atriplex polycarpa
Also called Cattle-spinach, Desert saltbush
Cattle saltbush is a hardy desert shrub native to the southwestern US and northern Mexico, valued as forage for livestock and wildlife. It thrives in hot, dry, open ground and needs little water once established.
Atriplex polycarpa, the allscale, (or all-scale) cattle spinach, allscale saltbush, or cattle saltbush, is a plant in the family Amaranthaceae.
It is native to the Southwestern United States, California, and northern Mexico.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Atriplex polycarpa 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.
