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Suaeda vera Forssk. ex J.F.Gmel.

Shrubby sea-blite; Alkali seepweed; Shrubby Seablight

Amaranthaceae · Great Britain, Baleares +23

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
0.3°C
Record low -7.7 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
27°C
Jul and Aug at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
573mm
10 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
12–47DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet winters: the rain comes September to January and April to May, read as a winter growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Suaeda vera, also known as shrubby sea-blite, shrubby seablight or in the US sometimes as alkali seepweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae (formerly classified under the Chenopodiaceae). It is a small shrub, with very variable appearance over its wide range. It is a halophyte, and occurs in arid and semi-arid saltflats, salt marshes and similar habitats.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Suaeda vera", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (393 mm of 533 mm) falls in September to January and April to May, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 14.1 °C against a yearly mean of 15.7 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: March to July and October to November.

Rain

533 mm in the median year at the habitat, 393 mm of it September to January and April to May. Wettest month November at 69 mm, driest month July at 10 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 279 mm to 823 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 573 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 533 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 12 to 47 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 4, the highest 90th-percentile month 50).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 0.3 °C, the absolute minimum -7.7 °C, 131 frost nights in 44 years, 3.0 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 33.2 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 5.5 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 2.2 °C to 11.1 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 27.0 °C in August (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 0.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 57 to 61% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -15 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Suaeda vera through the yearWarmest months July and August, mean daily high 27 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 5.5 °C; 533 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.-10°0°10°20°30°40°frost33.2° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-7.7° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125mm rainDLI 12–47RH 57–61%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 657 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C11 / 7–1512 / 7–1715 / 9–1917 / 11–2020 / 15–2424 / 17–2927 / 20–3327 / 20–3224 / 18–2820 / 14–2315 / 10–1912 / 8–16
Night °C6 / 2–116 / 3–118 / 4–1210 / 6–1413 / 9–1617 / 12–2019 / 14–2220 / 15–2317 / 13–2114 / 10–189 / 6–157 / 3–13
Rain mm55 / 24–8743 / 23–6940 / 23–6250 / 25–6544 / 19–6425 / 7–5010 / 1–4722 / 3–5247 / 21–7868 / 33–9969 / 33–10560 / 26–117
DLI14 / 6–1820 / 10–2430 / 18–3337 / 29–4143 / 35–4646 / 37–5047 / 36–5041 / 30–4532 / 21–3622 / 13–2615 / 7–1912 / 4–16
RH %61 / 57–6660 / 56–6458 / 54–6358 / 53–6258 / 53–6358 / 51–6357 / 50–6458 / 52–6359 / 54–6361 / 57–6460 / 57–6661 / 58–67
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 657 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (1280 records in those cells; 86 more cells hold records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cells are left out), with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 928:3688 (43.575, 4.425). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -7.7 °C, 1st-percentile night 0.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 33.2 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 657 distinct grid cells holding 1280 of the 1403 in-range records (86 further cells with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 928:3688 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 43.50_4.375, lapse-corrected -15 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeGreat Britain, Baleares, Corse, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain, Albania, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Sicilia, Yugoslavia, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Madeira, Selvagens, Cyprus, Palestine, Sinai · introduced: Germany, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leeward Is. AB Ant · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker38.15, -0.77 · in the densest population, 891 records (61% of those in range)
Doubtfully present inChad · recorded by WCVP as doubtfully present: not part of the range records are tested against
Kew's description“subshrub or shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 1465 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 1280 of them in the land cells it reads, of 1403 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 869 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 677 km away. 22 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 62 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 1465 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Cesar Ormazabal, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) MJDapifer, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Alister Harman, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Atriplex halimus Atriplex halimus Shrubby orache Photo: CC BY, Vasco Henrique Oliveira FonsecaHyoscyamus albus Hyoscyamus albus White henbane Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinhaBrassica fruticulosa Brassica fruticulosa Twiggy turnip Photo: CC BY, Em LamondPinus halepensis Pinus halepensis Aleppo pine Photo: CC0, author not statedMalva subovata Malva subovata Sea Mallow Photo: CC BY, FranGalium murale Galium murale Small Goosegrass Photo: CC0, author not stated

Other Suaeda 11 in the reference

Suaeda australis Suaeda australis Austral Seablite Photo: CC BY, Jane CanawaySuaeda calceoliformis Suaeda calceoliformis Horned sea-blite Photo: CC BY, Matt BergerSuaeda californica Suaeda californica California seablite Photo: CC BY, Rajan RaoSuaeda divaricata Suaeda divaricata Jume-scrub Photo: CC BY, Nahuel Di MarcoSuaeda esteroa Suaeda esteroa Seablite Photo: CC BY, dorianSuaeda glauca Suaeda glauca Asian common seepweed Photo: CC BY-SA, ZinogreSuaeda linearis Suaeda linearis Annual seepweed Photo: CC BY, Clifton Ladd, C.W.B.Suaeda maritima Suaeda maritima Annual sea-blite Photo: CC BY, maureen_c-mSuaeda nigra Suaeda nigra Bush seepweed Photo: CC BY, Ryan DonnellySuaeda taxifolia Suaeda taxifolia Woolly seablite Photo: CC0, author not statedSuaeda vermiculata Suaeda vermiculata Arabian Jointed Glasswort Photo: CC BY, Vítor Jorge

Names & registers

Also known as Chenopodina vera; Chenopodium fruticosum; Cochliospermum fruticosum; Lerchia fruticosa; Lerchia maritima var. fruticosa and 17 more. (GBIF Backbone)

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Amaranthaceae
Described by
Forssk. ex J.F.Gmel.
Native to
Great Britain, Baleares, Corse +22
Wild records
1465 in range · 869 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22; "Suaeda fruticosa" not shown: a scientific name Kew or this reference holds
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 46 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (16 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 29 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 43.50_4.375, lapse-corrected -15 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Suaeda vera Forssk. ex J.F.Gmel. (the item's: IPNI 1013554-1, POWO 167588-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 106 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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