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§1 Plant — species · Chenopodiaceae
Atriplex hortensis L.
vernacular garden orache
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Chenopodiaceae Vent.
- Genus
- Atriplex
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§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.
Introduced · 23 counties
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Broadwater 30007
- Carbon 30009
- Chouteau 30015
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Madison 30057
- Mineral 30061
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Phillips 30071
- Pondera 30073
- Powell 30077
- Sanders 30089
- Sheridan 30091
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Valley 30105
- Wibaux 30109
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ATHO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3083761 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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