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Suaeda maritima
Also called Annual Sea-blite, Sea blite, White sea-blite, Annual-seablite, Common Seablite
Herbaceous seepweed is an annual, salt-tolerant plant of coastal salt marshes and sea shores, with fleshy leaves and green flowers. It is grown mainly as a salt-tolerant edible or ornamental in coastal or saline-soil settings rather than as a houseplant.
Suaeda maritima is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common names herbaceous seepweed and annual seablite.
This plant resides in aquatic, terrestrial, and wetland habitats. But mainly in salt marshes and sea shores, usually below the high water mark. Additionally, Suaeda maritima is able to catch mud and help build up the marshes.
As cited earlier, this plant may be subject to protection and prohibition from harvest or disturbance. The young leaves of sea blite can be consumed raw or cooked, although it has a strong salty flavor. The seeds are also consumable raw or cooked.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Suaeda maritima 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.
