Berry Seablite

Scientific Name:

Suaeda baccifera

Status:

Native to Eurasia.

Berry Seablite branches
Photo: A J Brown

Plant Description:

Procumbent to weakly erect annual or short-lived perennial, hairless, herb to 30 cm tall. Glaucous or grey-green, often tinged pink. Leaves are linear, pointed, 5-15 mm long and 1-1.5 mm wide with narrowly membranous and transparent margins.

Flowers are in clusters between the leaves and stems, forming leafy panicles. Flowers are subtended by 2-3 small scale-like bracts and the flower (or perianth) segments are succulent, 5 lobed, depressed-globular in shape and about 3 mm diameter. Seed is lens-shaped, black to dark-reddish brown, 1.-1.5 mm diameter.

Habitat:

Scattered around Port Phillip Bay in coastal saltmarsh and on inland saline flats and salt lakes.

Region	Salinity Class	Waterlogging Class
Mallee, Loddon Murray, Central and Northern, Wimmera, *Western	S3, S4	W2, W3

* coastal only

Comments:

Similar in general growth to Austral Seablite (Suaeda australis) but normally a smaller and more procumbent plant.

Berry Seablite photos

Berry Seablite leaves Photo: A J Brown	Berry Seablite plant Photo: A J Brown
Berry Seablite leaves Photo: A J Brown	Berry Seablite flowers Photo: A J Brown

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