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Suaeda californica
Also called California Sea Blite
California seablite is a rare, mound-shaped shrub from salt marshes, now found only around Morro Bay in San Luis Obispo County, California, and grown mainly for conservation or restoration. It needs saline, moist, well-drained marsh conditions and is hard to keep outside its native habitat.
Suaeda californica is a rare species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common name California seablite. It is now endemic to San Luis Obispo County, California, where it is known from a few occurrences in the marshes around Morro Bay. Historical populations around San Francisco Bay have been extirpated, though it has been reintroduced to multiple sites in the area.
This rare plant, Suaeda californica, grows in a restricted area within the intertidal zone of salt marshes. It is threatened by anything that alters the hydrology of the area, such as changes in sedimentation, including dredging, erosion, and recreation. It requires a porous substrate high in nitrogen, which may come from decaying plant matter and bird droppings. Invasive plant species such as introduced ice plant threaten remaining occurrences and reintroductions.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Suaeda californica 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.
