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Seablite

Suaeda esteroa

Also called Estuary Seablite

Seablite
Photo: Anthony Valois and the National Park Service, Public domain

Estuary seablite is a low, yellow-green to reddish subshrub with fleshy, succulent leaves, native to salt marshes and estuaries on the coast of southern California and Baja California. It is a salt-tolerant plant that needs saline or brackish conditions and plenty of sun.

Family
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth & beet family)
Grows as
Succulent
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the soil moist and water with brackish or salty water in its native habitat; avoid letting it dry out completely.
Soil
Saline, sandy or muddy soil such as salt marsh mud or a sandy mix with some salt.
Temperature
Tolerates mild coastal temperatures; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. California to NW. Mexico
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Suaeda esteroa is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common name estuary seablite. It is a yellow-green to reddish subshrub with fleshy, succulent leaves. It is native to the estuaries and salt marshes of coastal southern California and Baja California.

Other Suaeda plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Suaeda esteroa 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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