Suaeda calceoliformis

(Hooker) Moquin-Tandon

Chenop. Monogr. Enum., 128. 1840.

Common names: Horned sea-blite Pursh’s seepweed
WeedyIllustrated
Basionym: Chenopodium calceoliforme Hooker Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 126. 1838
Synonyms: Suaeda americana (Persoon) Fernald Suaeda depressa var. erecta S. Watson Suaeda erecta (S. Watson) A. Nelson
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 393. Mentioned on page 390, 392.

Herbs, annual, prostrate to erect, green to dark red, 0.5–8 (–10) dm, glaucous. Stems decumbent to erect, green to dark red, usually striped, simple or branched; branches decumbent, ascending, or spreading. Leaves often tightly ascending, sometimes ± spreading; blade linear-lanceolate, adaxial surface flat, (5–) 10–40 × 0.2–15 mm, usually widest proximal to middle, apex acute to apiculate. Glomes usually crowded in 1–6 cm compound spikes, 3–5 (–7) -flowered; bracts subtending branches leaflike, often slightly broader than leaves, bracts subtending glome similar in shape to leaves, 2–12 × 0.8–1.5 mm, broadest proximal to middle, thin-margined basally. Flowers bisexual; perianth zygomorphic or irregular (1 or 3 segments usually larger), 1–4 mm diam.; perianth segments transversely winged proximally (continuously in disk or interrupted), rounded and keeled abaxially and/or horned or hooded distally; stigmas usually 2. Seeds dimorphic; lenticular, 0.8–1.7 mm diam., with seed-coat black, shiny; or flat, 1–1.5 mm diam., with seed-coat brown, dull. 2n = 36.


Phenology: Flowering summer–fall.
Habitat: Saline or alkaline wetland soils, including disturbed areas and reservoir margins, also along salted roadsides
Elevation: 0-2400 m

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., Man., N.B., Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.), N.W.T., N.S., Nunavut, Ont., P.E.I., Que., Sask., Yukon, Alaska, Ariz., Calif., Colo., Conn., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Maine, Mass., Mich., Minn., Mo., Mont., Nebr., Nev., N.H., N.J., N.Mex., N.Y., N.Dak., Okla., Oreg., R.I., S.Dak., Tex., Utah, Wash., Wis., Wyo., Mexico

Discussion

The name Suaeda depressa has been misapplied to this species (J. McNeill et al. 1977). In the northeastern part of its range, S. calceoliformis was long known as S. americana, but the two were found to be conspecific (I. J. Bassett and C. W. Crompton 1978). Suaeda calceoliformis can easily be confused with S. occidentalis, with which it is sympatric in the Great Basin; see comments under S. occidentalis. Plants of the annual Mexican seepweed, S. mexicana (Standley) Standley also are similar to S. calceoliformis, but are more or less shiny, yellowish or light brown, and have opposite leaves at the base and alternate ones distally. Suaeda mexicana has been reported once (in 1895) from El Paso County, Texas, but no specimens have been located to substantiate the report.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"wider than long" is not a number."dm" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

... more about "Suaeda calceoliformis"
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
proximal +  and middle +
0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
acute +  and apiculate +
Wayne R. Ferren Jr. +  and H. Jochen Schenk +
(Hooker) Moquin-Tandon +
slippery +
aromatic +
narrowed +
Chenopodium calceoliforme +
linear-lanceolate +
thin-margined +
persistent +  and deciduous +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (?) +  and 1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (?) +
proximal +  and middle +
0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
reddish-brown +, black +, brown +  and green +
ovate +  and lanceolate +
spreading +, ascending +  and decumbent +
Horned sea-blite +  and Pursh’s seepweed +
Alta. +, B.C. +, Man. +, N.B. +, Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.) +, N.W.T. +, N.S. +, Nunavut +, Ont. +, P.E.I. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Yukon +, Alaska +, Ariz. +, Calif. +, Colo. +, Conn. +, Idaho +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Kans. +, Maine +, Mass. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, Mo. +, Mont. +, Nebr. +, Nev. +, N.H. +, N.J. +, N.Mex. +, N.Y. +, N.Dak. +, Okla. +, Oreg. +, R.I. +, S.Dak. +, Tex. +, Utah +, Wash. +, Wis. +, Wyo. +  and Mexico +
0-2400 m +
staminate +  and pistillate +
1 +  and 12 +
3-5(-7)-flowered +
Saline or alkaline wetland soils, including disturbed areas and reservoir margins, also along salted roadsides +
opposite +  and alternate +
spreading +  and ascending +
not winged +  and winged +
laciniate +  and entire +
scarious +  and succulent +
inferior +, half-inferior +  and superior +
pyriform +, ellipsoid +  and ovoid +
papillate +  and smooth +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +
1 +  and single +
irregular +  and zygomorphic +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
hooded +  and winged +
horned +, keeled +  and rounded +
nonadherent +  and adherent +
membranous +  and ceraceous +
Flowering summer–fall. +
Chenop. Monogr. Enum., +
pointing +  and ascending +
basal +, median +  and position +
bulbous +  and taprooted +
fusiform +
fleshy +  and fibrous +
brown +  and black +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
dull +  and shiny +
papillate +  and reticulate +
reddish-brown +, brown +  and black +
1mm +  and 1.5mm +
lenticular +
Weedy +  and Illustrated +
cylindric +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
branched +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
striped +, green +  and dark red +
decumbent +  and erect +
not fleshy +
sessile +  and petiolate +
reduced;small +
horizontal +  and vertical +
verrucate +
Suaeda americana +, Suaeda depressa var. erecta +  and Suaeda erecta +
Suaeda calceoliformis +
Suaeda sect. Brezia +
species +
green +  and dark red +
polygamous +, dioecious +  and monoecious +