Common name:
Babington's orache
Family:
Scientific name:
Atriplex glabriuscula
Main flower color:
Range:
Coastal regions all across the British Isles
Height:
A few cm - grows along the ground
Habitat:
Waste ground and beach margins, often on shingle
Flowers:
Tiny, green, with five tepals, in relatively well-separated clusters along the upper portion of the leafy stems. Female flowers are subtended by a pair of diamond-shaped bracteloles
Leaves:
Narrow, ovate, fleshy, light green, with a sparse mealy coating. On hairless, grooved stems which tend to turn red in late summer
Season:
July to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
