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Atriplex nummularia

Shrub

HomeShrubAtriplex nummularia

Alkaline places, mainly below 600 metres in California.

Family: Chenopodiaceae
Height: 3.5 m / 12 ft
Sun
Light, Medium Soil
Dry to Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 3 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 2 of 5
Other Uses: 3 of 5

Native Habitat

Giant Saltbush, Bluegreen saltbush Atriplex nummularia native habitat is Alkaline places, mainly below 600 metres in California.

Edible Uses

Leaves and young shoots - cooked. Seed - cooked. It can be used as a piñole or be ground into a meal and used as a thickener in soups that are added to flour for making bread.

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