Salsa Seepweed (Suaeda salsa)

Family: Chenopodiaceae | Edibility: Edible (1/5)

Suaeda salsa is a ANNUAL growing to 0.5 m (1ft 8in). It is in flower from July to October, and the seeds ripen from August to October. The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is pollinated by Wind. Suitable for: light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils. Suitable pH: mildly acid, neutral and basic (mildly alkaline) soils and can grow in saline soils. It cannot grow in the shade. It prefers moist soil.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Nuts/Seeds, Leaves

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Fall, Late Summer, Spring

Flavor & Culinary Uses

Leaves - raw or cooked. A salty flavour. Seed - cooked whole or ground into a powder. A famine food, it is only used when all else fails. The small seed is about 0.8 - 1.5mm in diameter. — Leaves - raw or cooked.; Seed - cooked whole or ground into a powder.; A famine food, it is only used when all else fails.; The small seed is about 0.8 - 1.5mm in diameter.

Habitat & North American Range

Maritime or, more rarely, continental solonchaks. Saline and alkaline soils of beaches ad lakeshores in northern China. (Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8)