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Suaeda conferta
(Small) I.M. Johnst.
Family:
Amaranthaceae
Beach Seepweed
[
Dondia insularis
Britton]
FNA
Resources
Stanley L. Welsh, Clifford W. Crompton & Steven E. Clemants in Flora of North America (vol. 4)
Shrubs,
forming dense tufts and mats, 2-10 × 2-50 dm.
Stems
prostrate to decumbent, gray, branched, very brittle, occasionally rooting at nodes, glabrous, leaf scars ± knobby; branches prostrate to spreading, glaucous.
Leaves
crowded at tips of vegetative stems; petiole flat, ± 1 mm; blade glaucous, ellipsoid to narrowly ellipsoid; 2-10 × 1-2 mm, apex rounded.
Glomes
usually confined to distal stems and branches, forming ± densely crowded, ascending compound spikes, 1-5-flowered; branches 1-1.5 mm diam., as thick as vegetative ones; bracts glaucous, leaflike in shape, 1-5 mm.
Flowers
bisexual or pistillate; perianth 2-3 mm diam.; perianth segments proximally connate; ovary ± vase-shaped with necklike extension; stigmas 2-3.
Seeds
horizontal or vertical, 0.8-1.2 mm; seed coat black.
Flowering spring-fall. Sandy beaches and dunes, saline flats, mostly on bare soils; 0-200 m; Tex.; Mexico; West Indies.
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