spear saltbush
common orache
spear orach
atriplex patula latin

Growing in the arable fields during the summer months would have been a crop of barley amongst which various weeds were growing, including fat-hen, common orache and black bindweed.

The Ertebølle culture presumably used Common Orache (A. patula) as a vegetable (A. patula is attested as an archaeophyte in northern Europe).

Atriplex patula (I)

The larvae feed on Chenopodium (including Chenopodium album) and Atriplex species (including Atriplex patula).

The first instar larva live in the carpels of Atriplex species, including Atriplex patula, Atriplex latifolia, Atriplex laciniata and Atriplex tatarica.