WorldFloraDB - Salicornia rubra

Characteristics

Stems usually erect, green with red or purple at base and apex of segments and around flowers, often becoming completely red in fruit, simple or with primary and secondary branches, more elaborately branched if damaged, (1-)5-25 cm, ultimate branches usually short; leaf and bract apices obtuse to subacute, not mucronate. Spikes weakly torulose, 0.5-3(-5) cm, with 4-10(-19) fertile segments; bracts covering only base of cymes. Fertile segments (2d-4th in main spikes) 2.1-4.4 × 1.8-3.2 mm, about as long as wide or slightly longer, widest distally, margins (0.1-)0.2-0.3(-0.4) mm wide, scarious. Central flowers usually semicircular distally, 1.1-2.2 × 1-1.7 mm, about as long as wide or a little longer, usually not or scarcely larger than lateral flowers; anthers commonly not exserted, (0.2-)0.3-0.4 mm, usually dehiscing within flowers. 2n = 18.

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Slender annual 1–2.5 dm; scales below the spike acutish, those of the spikes blunt or rounded; spikes very numerous, 1–5 cm, the joints 2–2.5 × 2–3 mm; central fl broadly rounded above the cuneate base, reaching nearly or quite to the node above, the lateral ones obliquely ovate; seeds 1–1.2 mm; 2n=18. Saline soil; w. Minn. to Sask. and w. Kans., w. to B.C. and Nev.

An annual herb. It is fleshy and erect. It grows 5-25 cm tall. The flowers are small but the central flowers in each cluster are longer than the side flowers.

Life form

annual

Growth form

herb

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Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

anemogamy

Spread

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Mature width (meter)

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Mature height (meter)

0.2 - 0.23

Root system

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Rooting depth (meter)

0.2

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Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

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Nitrogen fixer

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Environment

Seasonally wet, saline or alkaline places inland, rarely also naturalized in saline areas along highways at elevations of 100-1600 metres.

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It is a temperate plant. It grows in salt marshes.

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Usage

The leaves are salty but can be eaten raw in small amounts. They can also be cooked in soups, stews or as a vegetable.

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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

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