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|accepted_name=Suaeda occidentalis
|accepted_authority=(S. Watson) S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts.
|place=9: 90. 1874
|year=1874
}}
|common_names=Western seepweed
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Schoberia occidentalis
|authority=S. Watson
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Suaeda;Suaeda sect. Brezia;Suaeda occidentalis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Suaeda]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Suaeda sect. Brezia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Suaeda occidentalis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 392, 393
|treatment_page=page 394
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, erect, green to red, 0.5–3.5 dm, glaucous. <b>Stems</b> erect, green to red, usually branched from near base and throughout; branches ascending to widely spreading, slender. <b>Leaves</b> ascending or spreading; blade linear to linear-elliptic, widest at middle, adaxial surface flat, 5–30 × 0.5–15 mm, apex acute to apiculate. <b>Glomes</b> in flexuous-spreading, 1–6 cm compound spikes, 1–3-flowered; bracts subtending branches leaflike, not wider than leaves; bracts subtending flowers leaflike, widest at middle, shorter than leaves, 2–12 × 0.5–15 mm, not thin-margined basally. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; perianth zygomorphic or irregular (1 or 3 segments usually larger), 1–3 mm diam.; perianth segments transversely winged proximally (continuously in disk or interrupted), rounded and keeled abaxially and/or horned or hooded distally; stigmas usually 2. <b>Seeds</b> dimorphic; lenticular, 1–1.5 mm diam., with seed coat black, shiny; or flat, 1–1.5 mm diam., with seed coat brown, dull.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Saline or alkaline wetland soils, Great Basin desert
|elevation=1000-2200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>This species is easily confused with <i>Suaeda calceoliformis</i>, which occurs throughout its range. There are virtually no differences in floral characters. Bracts of <i>S. occidentalis</i> often appear thin-margined at the base in dried specimens but not in fresh material, whereas bracts of <i>S. calceoliformis</i> have visible membranous margins in both. Differences in bract and branching characteristics are usually distinct in fresh specimens. Larger specimens of <i>S. occidentalis</i> are usually branched throughout, with the spreading branches resulting in a more-or-less spherical shape of the plant. The mostly ascending branches of the more-erect <i>S. calceoliformis</i> tend to be concentrated in the upper half of the main stems, with primary branches sometimes arising from the base, and therefore creating a candelabrum shape of the plant.</p>
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name=Suaeda occidentalis
|author=
|authority=(S. Watson) S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Schoberia occidentalis
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Saline or alkaline wetland soils, Great Basin desert
|elevation=1000-2200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts.
|publication year=1874
|special status=
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|genus=Suaeda
|section=Suaeda sect. Brezia
|species=Suaeda occidentalis
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