# Atriplex pacifica

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{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|image = Atriplex_pacifica.jpg
|genus = Atriplex
|species = pacifica
|authority = [A.Nels.](/source/A.Nels.)
}}

'''''Atriplex pacifica''''' is a species of [saltbush](/source/Atriplex) known by the common names '''Davidson's saltbush''', '''South Coast saltbush''', and '''Pacific orach'''.

It is native to the coastline of [Southern California](/source/Southern_California), including the [Channel Islands](/source/Channel_Islands_of_California), and [Baja California](/source/Baja_California), where it grows in [saline](/source/soil_salinity) habitat on the immediate coastline, such as beach bluffs. It is an uncommon plant, chiefly because much of its native habitat has been drastically altered.

This is a mat-forming annual herb producing scaly, reddish green, prostrate stems 10 to 30 centimeters long. The leaves are less than 2 centimeters long, usually oval, with gray-green scaly undersides. Male flowers are borne in terminal spike [inflorescence](/source/inflorescence)s that emerge from the distal end of the branches, while female flower clusters appear proximally on the branches.

==External links==
*[http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=993  Calflora Database: ''Atriplex pacifica'' (Pacific saltbrush,  South coast saltbush)]
*[https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=15249 Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of ''Atriplex pacifica'']
*[https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ATPA USDA Plants Profile for ''Atriplex pacifica'' (Davidson's saltbush)]
*[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242415561 Flora of North America]
*[http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Atriplex+pacifica UC Photos gallery: ''Atriplex pacifica'']

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pacifica
Category:Halophytes
Category:Flora of California
Category:Flora of Baja California
Category:Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Category:Natural history of the Channel Islands of California
Category:Plants described in 1904
Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status

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