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Atriplex hortensis
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species of plant
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*Atriplex hortensis* is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae, belonging to the genus *Atriplex*. It is classified within the kingdom Plantae, phylum Tracheophyta, class Magnoliopsida, and order Caryophyllales. The species has the common names garden orache, Garten-Melde, lebeda zahradní, and Have-Mælde. It is recognized as a useful plant with applications as both a vegetable and a medicinal plant.
The native range of *Atriplex hortensis* includes East European Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, the North Caucasus, South European Russia, and the Transcaucasus. There are 11,100 recorded occurrences of this species.
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- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyAmaranthaceae
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- useful plant
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- Atriplex
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- Has use
- vegetable
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- A. hortensis
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Encyclopedic overview
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Atriplex hortensis, known as garden orache, red orache or simply orache (/ˈɒrətʃ/; also spelled orach), mountain spinach, French spinach, or arrach, is a species of plant in the amaranth family used as a leaf vegetable that was common before spinach; it is still grown as a warm-weather alternative to spinach. For many years, it was classified in the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae), but it has now been absorbed into the Amaranthaceae. It is Eurasian, native to Asia and Europe, and widely naturalized in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
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