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|accepted_name=Suaeda linearis
|accepted_authority=(Elliott) Moquin-Tandon
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Chenop. Monogr. Enum.,
|place=130. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|common_names=Southern sea-blite
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Salsola linearis
|authority=Elliott
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|publication_place=1: 332. 1817
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Suaeda;Suaeda sect. Brezia;Suaeda linearis
|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 linearis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 392, 395
|treatment_page=page 394
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, annual in colder regions, erect or ascending, dark green or glaucous, 2–9 dm. <b>Stems</b> erect, green to reddish, often profusely branched from base, slightly woody at base; branches ascending or spreading, not decumbent, slender. <b>Leaves</b> ascending or spreading; blade narrowly linear, planoconvex to semiterete, 7–50 × 0.8–1.8 mm, apex acute. <b>Glomes</b> in usually dense, branched, compound spikes, 1–3-flowered; spike ascending, 1–12 cm, slender; bracts shorter than leaves, 2–7(–12) × 2–4 mm. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; perianth ± irregular or zygomorphic (segments slightly to strongly unequal), 1.2–2.5 mm diam.; perianth segments thin, at least one segment abaxially rounded and keeled and/or distally hooded, apex acute; stigmas 2(–5). <b>Seeds</b> dimorphic; lenticular, 1–1.8 mm diam., with seed coat black, finely reticulate, shiny; or flat, 1.5–2.6 mm, with seed coat brown, dull. <b>2n</b> = 54.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Salt marshes, sandy beaches, other coastal wetlands
|elevation=1-10 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;West Indies (Bahamas).
|discussion=<p><i>Suaeda linearis</i> is strictly annual (probably related to freezing conditions of winter) and usually green in the northern part of its range; it is usually perennial and glaucous in the southern part.</p>
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name=Suaeda linearis
|authority=(Elliott) Moquin-Tandon
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Salsola linearis
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Salt marshes, sandy beaches, other coastal wetlands
|elevation=1-10 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;West Indies (Bahamas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Chenop. Monogr. Enum.,
|publication year=1840
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_780.xml
|genus=Suaeda
|section=Suaeda sect. Brezia
|species=Suaeda linearis
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