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Suaeda
Also called Seepweeds, Sea Blites
Suaeda is a genus of salt-tolerant, often succulent shrubs and herbs (seepweeds, sea-blites) found mainly on salt flats, saltmarshes and tidal wetlands. Grow them in saline or alkaline, moist, well-drained conditions in full sun.
Suaeda is a genus of plants also known as seepweeds and sea-blites. Most species are confined to saline or alkaline soil habitats, such as coastal salt-flats and tidal wetlands. Many species have thick, succulent leaves, a characteristic seen in various plant genera that thrive in salty habitats (halophile plants).
The most common species in northwestern Europe is S. maritima. It grows along the coasts, especially in saltmarsh areas, and is known in Britain as "common sea-blite", but as "herbaceous seepweed" in the US. It is also common along the east coast of North America from Virginia northward. One of its varieties is common in tropical Asia on the land-side edge of mangrove tidal swamps. Another variety of this polymorphic species is common in tidal zones all around Australia (Suaeda maritima var. australis is also classed as S. australis).
In the medieval and early post-medieval centuries suaeda was harvested and burned, and the ashes were processed as a source for sodium carbonate for use in glass-making; see glasswort.
Seablite · Suaeda aralocaspica · Austral Seablite · Pursh seepweed · California seablite · Seablite · Herbaceous seepweed · South-Indian seepweed · Bush Seepweed · Suaeda pulvinata · Suaeda salina · Woolly seablite
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Suaeda by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
