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Amaranthaceae
Herbaceous seepweed
Suaeda maritima
Also known as Sea blite, Seepweed, Suaeda, Chenopodium salsum
Native Plants · Halophyte · Salt-Tolerant · Coastal · Marsh · Tidal · Succulent-Stems · Wildlife-Habitat · Restoration · Full-Sun · Perennial
Herbaceous seepweed is a salt-tolerant coastal perennial naturally at home in tidal marshes, saltmarshes, and saline mudflats. It requires full sun and can handle both waterlogged and moderately dry saline soils, making it a specialist plant for coastal restoration and halophyte gardens. Little maintenance is needed once established, though it performs best when planted in its preferred saline habitat conditions.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 7 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately; plant is adapted to saline and brackish wet conditions and requires consistent but not excessive freshwater if · Every 10-14 days; tolerates periodic inundation
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- sandy loam
- Soil pH
- 7.5–8
- Temperature
- -30°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 4a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spacing
- 12 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Deep
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Fine
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Central European Rus, Connecticut, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Egypt
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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