Atriplex dioica
(Saline Atriplex)

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The Flora of North America states "The species [Atriplex dioica] forms a mirror-image set of specimens with the remarkably similar Atriplex prostrata, from which it may be distinguished in most cases by the thickened, merely ovate to lanceolate leaf blades, and less commonly but in some localities exclusively triangular-hastate to lanceolate, mostly scurfy and prominently 3-veined leaf blades". I believe this specimen (Plant B) is part of the second (bolded) group, although the leaves of this specimen are not mostly scurfy.

Flowering Stage

Lower Plant
Upper Plant


Upper Plant


Leaf Top

Leaf Bottom


Leaf Top Close-Up

Leaf Bottom Close-Up


Terminal Inflorescence

Flowering Branch


Staminate Flower Top

Staminate Flower Top


Staminate Flower Side


Early Pistillate Flower

Later Pistillate Flowers


Pistillate Flower, Near Bracteole Removed

Pistillate Flower, Near Bracteole Removed


Fruiting Stage

Terminal Infructescence


Fruiting Branch

Fruiting Branch


Fruiting Glomerule


Fruit - Face View

Fruit - Face View


Fruit - Face View

Fruit - Edge View


Fruit With Large Seed, Cut Open

Fruit With Large Seed, Cut Open


Fruit With Small Seed, Cut Open

Fruit Longitudinal Section