Atriplex holocarpa

Erect or rounded annual or short-lived perennial to c. 30 cm high, monoecious. Leaves petiolate, alternate, rhombic or broadly hastate, mostly 10–20 mm long and wide, mealy on both surfaces with vesicular hairs, margin dentate or sinuate. Flowers in axillary clusters of one or both sexes. Fruiting bracteoles sessile, wholly united into a globose or broadly obovoid, firmly spongy structure 8–12 mm long, woody in the centre. Fruits Sep.–Oct.