Atriplex hortensis

Atriplex hortensis, known as garden orache, red orache or simply orache (/ˈɒrə/; 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 and still grown as a warm-weather alternative to that crop. For many years, it was classified in the goosefoot family, 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.

Atriplex hortensis
1796 painting of "Chenopodium hortense"
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Atriplex
Species:
A. hortensis
Binomial name
Atriplex hortensis
Synonyms
Synonymy
  • Atriplex acuminata M.Bieb.
  • Atriplex atrosanguinea Voss
  • Atriplex benghalensis Lam.
  • Atriplex heterantha Wight
  • Atriplex microtheca Moq.
  • Atriplex purpurea Voss
  • Atriplex ruberrima Moq.
  • Atriplex rubra (L.) Crantz
  • Atriplex spectabilis Ehrh. ex Moq.
  • Atriplex virgata Roth
  • Chenopodium benghalense Spielm. ex Steud.
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