Atriplex sagittataBorkh.

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WFO wfo-0000556566 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Atriplex sagittata, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. a Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205894095
Atriplex sagittata, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. b Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204183569
Atriplex sagittata, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. c Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200489975
Atriplex sagittata, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171453520
Atriplex sagittata, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. e Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169638563
Atriplex sagittata, photographed by Anna Petrosyan
fig. f Anna Petrosyan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163069836
Atriplex sagittata, photographed by Константин Селивёрстов
fig. g Константин Селивёрстов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160266388
Atriplex sagittata, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. h Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160325737

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Native range 30 botanical countries

Regions where Atriplex sagittata is native: Altay, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, North Caucasus, Palestine, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kriti, Krym, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayKazakhstanKrasnoyarskNorth CaucasusPalestineTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeUzbekistanWest SiberiaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKritiKrymNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Atriplex sagittata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,043 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -24.2 °C -11.0 °C -3.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.1 °C 23.5 °C 26.4 °C
Annual rainfall 403 mm 569 mm 726 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 32 mm 97 mm 126 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,043 research-grade observations of Atriplex sagittata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Atriplex acuminata Waldst. & Kit.
  • Atriplex acuminata f. integrifolia (Peterm.) Soó
  • Atriplex acuminata f. orbicularis (Beck) Soó
  • Atriplex acuminata f. parvibracteata (Zapał.) Soó
  • Atriplex acuminata f. roseocarpa Priszter
  • Atriplex acuminata f. subsimplex (Beck) Soó
  • Atriplex argentea Pall. ex Steud.
  • Atriplex hermannii Willemet
  • Atriplex lucida Desf. ex Mert. & W.D.J.Koch
  • Atriplex micrantha Kar. & Kir.
  • Atriplex nitens Schkuhr
  • Atriplex nitens f. integrifolia Peterm.
  • Atriplex nitens f. orbicularis Beck
  • Atriplex nitens f. parvibracteata Zapał.
  • Atriplex nitens f. roseocarpa Priszter
  • Atriplex nitens f. subsimplex Beck
  • Atriplex viridis Moq.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.