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Extriplex joaquinana
Also called Valley Spearscale, San Joaquin Spearscale
San Joaquin Saltbush (Extriplex joaquinana), also called Valley Spearscale, is a small annual herb native to California's alkaline soils. It thrives in salty, poorly drained flats where few other plants grow, so it needs open, sunny conditions and salty, alkaline ground.
Extriplex joaquinana is a species known by the common name San Joaquin saltbush. It was formerly included in genus Atriplex.
It is endemic to California, where it grows in alkaline soils in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and adjacent parts of the Central Valley and eastern Central Coast Ranges.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Extriplex joaquinana 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.
