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Austral Seablite

Suaeda australis

Also called Southern Seepweed

Austral Seablite
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY 3.0

Austral seablite is a low, spreading, succulent-leaved shrub native to Australian coasts, estuaries and salt marshes. It thrives in salty, moist soil and is best grown in full sun.

Family
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth & beet family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep soil moist; tolerates salty or waterlogged conditions.
Soil
Sandy or saline soils, including coastal and salt marsh substrates.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm climates; frost tolerance not well documented.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
China to Temp. E. Asia, Jawa, Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Suaeda australis, the austral seablite, is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Australia.It was first described in 1810 by Robert Brown as Chenopodium australe. In 1831 Alfred Moquin-Tandon transferred it to the genus, Suaeda, to give its present name.

Other Suaeda plants

Seablite · Suaeda aralocaspica · Pursh seepweed · California seablite · Seablite · Herbaceous seepweed · South-Indian seepweed · Bush Seepweed · Suaeda pulvinata · Suaeda salina · Woolly seablite · Alkali seepweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Suaeda australis 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.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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