Suaeda taxifolia (woolly seablite)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Suaeda taxifolia, photographed by Madeleine Claire — fig. a Madeleine Claire, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-02 / obs. 161195574

Suaeda taxifolia, photographed by Jim Riley — fig. b Jim Riley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 158028555

Suaeda taxifolia, photographed by Steve Addison — fig. c Steve Addison, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133114926

Suaeda taxifolia, photographed by Sula Vanderplank — fig. d Sula Vanderplank, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121416448

Suaeda taxifolia, photographed by Amy — fig. e Amy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116010082

Suaeda taxifolia, photographed by Casey H. Richart — fig. f Casey H. Richart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112448368

Suaeda taxifolia, photographed by Zack Abbey — fig. h Zack Abbey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58584279

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Suaeda taxifolia, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
California	CAL	NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexican Pacific Is.	MXI
Mexico Northeast	MXE
Mexico Northwest	MXN

Not drawn on the map: Mexican Pacific Is.. 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.

Also published as 3 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.

Suaeda californica var. pubescens Jeps.
Suaeda californica var. taxifolia (Standl.) Munz
Suaeda taxifolia subsp. taxifolia

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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.

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