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§1 Plant — species · Chenopodiaceae
Atriplex argentea Nutt.
vernacular silverscale saltbush
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Chenopodiaceae Vent.
- Genus
- Atriplex
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 23 of 56 Montana counties.
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Carter 30011
- Dawson 30021
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Golden Valley 30037
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- McCone 30055
- Missoula 30063
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Powell 30077
- Rosebud 30087
- Sheridan 30091
- Teton 30099
- Valley 30105
- Wheatland 30107
- Wibaux 30109
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ATAR2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8175705 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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