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|accepted_name=Suaeda taxifolia
|accepted_authority=(Standley) Standley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Publ. Field Mus., Bot. Ser.
|place=8: 10. 1930
|year=1930
}}
|common_names=Woolly sea-blite
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Dondia taxifolia
|authority=Standley
|rank=species
|publication_title=in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl.
|publication_place=21: 9 1. 1916
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Suaeda californica var. pubescens
|authority=Jepson
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Suaeda californica var. taxifolia
|authority=(Standley) Munz
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Suaeda;Suaeda sect. Limbogermen;Suaeda taxifolia
|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. Limbogermen]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Suaeda taxifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 393, 395
|treatment_page=page 396
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or subshrubs, 1–15 dm. <b>Stems</b> spreading or erect, woody stems dull gray-brown, herbaceous stems light green or red, glaucous, usually puberulent to shortly villous, sometimes glabrous, leaf scars on woody stems knobby; branches spreading. <b>Leaves</b> ascending to widely spreading, subsessile; petiole ± 1 mm; blade blue-green, yellow-green, or red, glaucous, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, subcylindric or semiterete, 5–30 × 0.6–2 mm, apex acute to acuminate, usually puberulent to shortly villous, sometimes glabrous. <b>Glomes</b> distributed throughout plant on branches, 1–3-flowered; branches 2–4 mm diam.; bracts similar in shape and size to leaves. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual or lateral pistillate; perianth 1–3 mm diam.; perianth segments proximally connate, usually pubescent; ovary ± vase-shaped with distal necklike extension; stigmas 3–4. <b>Seeds</b> horizontal or vertical, 1–2 mm; seed coat black or brown.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering nearly year-round.
|habitat=Coastal bluffs, margins of salt marshes
|elevation=0-20 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Suaeda taxifolia</i> is a highly variable species with many habit, leaf, and pubescence phenotypes, which have resulted in the naming of several variants that appear to reflect local or regional habitat conditions. P. A. Munz (1958) considered this species to be part of <i>S. californica</i>, and referred the longer-leaved, larger-flowered, pubescent plants of coastal southern California to <i>S. californica</i> var. taxifolia; and the shorter-leaved, smaller-flowered, and densely pubescent plants to <i></i>var.<i> pubescens</i>. However, <i>S. californica</i> is a plant largely of intertidal estuarine shores and marshes and occurs only in central California, whereas <i>S. taxifolia</i> occurs largely on bluffs and occasionally on margins of estuaries in southern California and Baja California in Mexico (W. R. Ferren Jr. 1993). Throughout its range, <i>S. taxifolia</i> varies considerably in leaf shape and density of pubescence.</p>
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name=Suaeda taxifolia
|authority=(Standley) Standley
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Suaeda californica var. pubescens;Suaeda californica var. taxifolia
|basionyms=Dondia taxifolia
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering nearly year-round.
|habitat=Coastal bluffs, margins of salt marshes
|elevation=0-20 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Publ. Field Mus., Bot. Ser.
|publication year=1930
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Suaeda
|section=Suaeda sect. Limbogermen
|species=Suaeda taxifolia
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