Suaeda corniculata

(C. A. Mey.) Bunge

Jiao guo jian peng

AmaranthaceaeSeeds/Nuts

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Seeds

The seeds can be cooked whole or ground into a powder and mixed with cereals. This is considered a famine food, used only when other food sources have been exhausted.

Where to Find It

It is a temperate plant. It grows on salty-alkaline soil deserts, lake banks, riversides. It grows in the eastern forests in Manchuria. It can grow in arid places.

Asia, China, Europe, Manchuria, Mongolia, Russia, Siberia, Ukraine,

Countries: Andorra, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, Belarus, Switzerland, China, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Georgia, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Iceland, Italy, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Monaco, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Myanmar, Mongolia, Malta, Maldives, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Singapore, Slovenia, Slovakia, San Marino, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

How to Identify

An annual herb, It grows 60 cm tall. The stems can lie along the ground or be erect. They are light green and slightly curved. The leaves are narrow and do not have leaf stalks. They are 1-2 cm long by 1-2 mm wide. The seeds are 1-1.5 mm across.

How to Grow

Propagation: Sow seed in spring, direct in situ.

Medicinal Uses

None known

Other Uses

None known

Wikipedia

Annual herb reaching 16 inches tall. Wind-pollinated hermaphrodite flowering August to September with seeds ripening the same period. Tolerates light sandy, medium loamy, and heavy clay soils across mildly acidic to mildly alkaline pH ranges, including saline conditions. Requires full sun and moist soil. Salt-tolerant and suitable for coastal exposure.

Notes

Also put in the family Chenopodiaceae.

References (4)

BARANOV,
Plants for a Future database, The Field, Penpol, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, PL22 0NG, UK. http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/
Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 6:429. 1880
Zhu Gelin (Chu Ge-ling); Steven E. Clemants, CHENOPODIACEAE [Draft], Flora of China