Suaeda esteroa W. R. Ferren & S. A. Whitmore

Herbs or subshrubs, annual or usually perennial, yellow-green, green, or occasionally reddish, 1-6 dm, glaucous. Stems decumbent to erect, straw colored, branched, often woody at base, often with exfoliations; branches usually ascending. Leaves ascending, imbricate; blade green or reddish, linear-lanceolate, adaxial surface flat, 10-60 × 0.5-2.5 mm, base not narrowed, apex acute; proximal leaves usually withered, persistent or breaking apart into fibers, straw colored. Glomes in dense, mostly (2-)5-20 cm compound spikes; (1-)3-5-flowered; bracts smaller than leaves, 5-20 mm, usually widest at base. Flowers bisexual; perianth zygomorphic or irregular (one segment usually larger), 1.5-3(-3.5) mm diam.; perianth segments abaxially rounded and keeled and distally hooded; stigmas (2-)3. Seeds dimorphic; lenticular, 1-1.3 mm diam., with seed coat black to reddish brown, obscurely reticulate, shiny; or flat, 1.2-2 mm, with seed coat brown, dull.

Calif.; Mexico (Baja California).

Flowering late summer-fall.

Coastal salt marshes; 1-2m.

Suaeda esteroa is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common name estuary seablite. It is a yellow-green to reddish subshrub with fleshy, succulent leaves. It is native to the estuaries and salt marshes of coastal southern California and Baja California.

Suaeda esteroa là loài thực vật có hoa thuộc họ Dền. Loài này được Ferren & S.A. Whitmore miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1983.