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Atriplex hortensis, also known as garden orache, orache, arrach, French spinach, or mountain spinach, is a hardy, annual plant, with an erect, branching stem, varying in height from two to four feet, according to the variety. The leaves are variously shaped, but somewhat oblong, comparatively thin in texture, and slightly acid to the taste, the flowers are small and obscure, greenish or reddish, corresponding in a degree with the color of the foliage of the plant; the seeds are small, black, and surrounded with a thin, pale-yellow membrane. They retain their vitality for three years.[2]
- ^ Taxon: Atriplex hortensis L.. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area. Retrieved on 2008-03-23.
- ^ Burr, Fearing: "The Field and Garden Vegetables of America", page 297. Crosby and Nichols, 1863
