Suaeda nigra ( ) ( )

Suaeda torreyana, Suaeda fruticosa

Chenopodiaceae

• Suaeda torreyana: plants green, essentially glabrous or sometimes puberulent or sparsely pubescent above, much-branched, erect or ascending. 3-10 dm. tall; twigs and branches usually slender, the internodes usually conspicuous; leaves 2-3 cm. long, linear, very evidently flat, those of the inflorescence becoming reduced to 1-3 times as long as the flower cluster; flowers 1-5 in a cluster in the leaf axils, the clusters separated by the slender, often wiry, internode; calyx deeply cleft, the lobes rounded on back; seeds black, minutely tuberculate. Alkaline floodlands: east of the Sierra Nevada, also Colorado River area and Imperial Valley; north to eastern Oregon, east to Utah and New Mexico. The plants most obviously pubescent have been segregated as Sueda ramosissimma, but intergradations seem to make clear definition difficult between S. ramosissima and S. torreyana. "A Flora of the Marshes of California. Herbert L. Mason"
• Suaeda fruticosa: Stems erect or ascending, annual or more commonly perennial, often shrub-like with woody base; herbage glabrous and glaucous; leaves terete to subterete, linear, 1-3 cm. long, those of the inflorescence usually somewhat reduced and rarely more than 3 times as long as the flowers; flowers in clusters of 1-7, the clusters separated by a slender, often wiry, internode; calyx deeply cleft, the lobes rounded to somewhat keeled on back; seeds black. Alkaline and saline habitats: coastal southern California, Central Valley from central California southward, also east of the Sierra Nevada; north to Canada, south to northern Mexico. "A Flora of the Marshes of California. Herbert L. Mason".