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Woolly seablite

Suaeda taxifolia

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

Woolly seablite is a salt-tolerant shrub or subshrub from the coasts of southern California and Baja California, growing in salt marshes, beaches, dunes and scrub. It needs full sun, good drainage and little water once established.

Family
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth & beet family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; it tolerates salty conditions.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, well-drained soil; tolerates saline soil.
Temperature
Hardy in mild, frost-free climates; protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SW. California to Mexico (Baja California, Guadalupe, Durango)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Suaeda taxifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common name woolly seablite.

It is native to the coastline of southern California and Baja California, where it grows in saline habitat such as salt marshes, beaches, dunes, and scrub. It is quite variable in appearance.

Other Suaeda plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Suaeda taxifolia 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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