Halimione portulacoides(L.) Aellen

WFO wfo-0000714707 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Halimione portulacoides, photographed by Matthew Vosper
fig. a Matthew Vosper, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 203346267
Halimione portulacoides, photographed by Paulo Galvão
fig. b Paulo Galvão, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199845975
Halimione portulacoides, photographed by Victoria J. Burton
fig. c Victoria J. Burton, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193833211
Halimione portulacoides, photographed by bogsuckers
fig. d bogsuckers, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189198650
Halimione portulacoides, photographed by David Delon
fig. e David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187112148
Halimione portulacoides, photographed by Susan Marley
fig. f Susan Marley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184225889
Halimione portulacoides, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. g Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189395045
Halimione portulacoides, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. h Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189394880

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Halimione portulacoides is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Belgium, Corse, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kriti, Netherlands, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineSinaiTürkiyeAlbaniaBelgiumCorseDenmarkFranceGermanyGreeceIrelandItalyKritiNetherlandsNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Canary Is.BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Halimione portulacoides, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Belgium BGM
Corse COR
Denmark DEN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Netherlands NET
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,041 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 1.5 °C 4.2 °C 9.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.5 °C 20.1 °C 28.4 °C
Annual rainfall 565 mm 825 mm 1,369 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 22 mm 142 mm 226 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,041 research-grade observations of Halimione portulacoides that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Atriplex angustifolia var. erecta Gaudin
  • Atriplex portulacoides L.
  • Atriplex portulacoides var. erecta (Gaudin) Maire
  • Chenopodium portulacoides (L.) Thunb.
  • Halimus portulacoides (L.) Dumort.
  • Obione portulacoides (L.) Moq.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.