Family: Amaranthaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Critically Imperiled
Native Range:
The West Indies (Bahamas, Greater Antilles), western North America and Mexico.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported in 1920 by Britton & Millspaugh for the margins of salt pans in the Turks and Caicos Islands (South Caicos Island). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 462) for alkaline and somewhat saline soils in the southeastern Archipelago (region 2).
Comments:
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Synonyms:
Suaeda torreyana; Dondia fruticosa of Britton & Millspaugh (1920), not (L.) Northrop and not Forssk.
