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Tractscale
Atriplex serenana
  
1 Nurseries Carry This Plant

About Tractscale (Atriplex serenana) 1 Nurseries Carry This Plant Atriplex serenana is a species of saltbush known by the common names leafscale and stinking orach. It is native to California and Baja California, where it grows in saline and alkaline soils such as those on alkali flats and beach bluffs. This is a mat-forming annual herb producing scaly stems up to a meter long. The toothed leaves are 1 to 4 centimeters long. The flowers are generally borne in hard clusters along the stem and there is sometimes a spikelike flower cluster of male flowers at the end of the stem. There are two varieties of this species. The rarer of the two, Davidson's saltscale (var. davidsonii), is limited to the coastline of southern California and Baja California.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual herb

Size
Size
1 - 3.3 ft tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
Green

Wildlife Supported
 


 
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 1 confirmed , 16 likely * ) SHOW ALL
Brephidium exilis Image
Western Pygmy Blue Brephidium exilisBrephidium exilis
*
Pholisora catullus Image
Common Sootywing Pholisora catullusPholisora catullus
*
Hesperopsis libya Image
Mohave Sootywing Hesperopsis libyaHesperopsis libya
*
Plebejus emigdionis Image
San Emigdio Blue Plebejus emigdionisPlebejus emigdionis
*
Hyles lineata Image
White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineataHyles lineata
*
Orgyia vetusta Image
Western Tussock Moth Orgyia vetustaOrgyia vetusta
*
Autographa californica Image
Alfalfa Looper Moth Autographa californicaAutographa californica

Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Full Sun

Nurseries
Nurseries
Carried by 1

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Alkaline flats, bluffs

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 2.6" - 30.8", Summer Precipitation: 0.15" - 2.25", Coldest Month: 31.6" - 61.4", Hottest Month: 58.8" - 88.8", Humidity: 0.74" - 42.79", Elevation: -185" - 6472"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Bractscale, Leafscale, Stinking Orach


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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