Botanical name: Suaeda olufsenii    Family: Amaranthaceae (Amaranth family)
Synonyms: Suaeda corniculata var. olufsenii

Siberian's Seepweed is a highly variable annual herb, spreading over a 5–10 x 1–10 cm area, with a prostrate, ascending, or rarely erect habit. The glaucous-green, often purplish plants are extensively branched from the base, with stems up to 2 mm thick, initially striped green and pale or purplish, later becoming straw-colored. Leaves are few, succulent, semi-terete, linear to oblong, measuring 5–10 x 0.8–1.2 mm. Bracts become progressively shorter upward, changing from narrow ovate to broadly ovate or nearly circular, usually exceeding the glomerules except the uppermost. Bracteoles are 0.5–0.7 mm long, narrow ovate to obovate, with acute or acuminate tips and eroso-dentate upper margins. Axillary glomerules bear 3–11 flowers, or up to 30 flowers in luxuriant plants, arranged on short bracteate or ebracteate branches. The succulent tepals are fused for 1/2–3/4, with one tepal distinctly larger than the others. It occurs from Central Asia to SW Siberia and the Western Himalaya in saline marshes and alpine semi-deserts at altitudes of 3500-4800 m. Flowering: July-September.

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