Suaeda depressa
(Pursh) Watson
Paiuteweed, Pursh Seepweed
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves, Seeds
Young leaves can be eaten raw or cooked and have a salty flavour. The seeds are also edible raw or cooked.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant.
Canada, North America, USA,
How to Identify
Annual or short-lived perennial reaching 16 inches. Wind-pollinated, self-fertile hermaphrodite with flowers from July to October and seed ripening August to October. Prefers light sandy and medium loamy soils in neutral to mildly alkaline pH, tolerating very alkaline and saline soils. Requires full sun and moist conditions. Handles maritime exposure well.
How to Grow
Propagation: Sow seed in spring, direct in situ.
Medicinal Uses
None known
Other Uses
None known
Wikipedia
Source ↗Annual or short-lived perennial reaching 16 inches. Wind-pollinated, self-fertile hermaphrodite with flowers from July to October and seed ripening August to October. Prefers light sandy and medium loamy soils in neutral to mildly alkaline pH, tolerating very alkaline and saline soils. Requires full sun and moist conditions. Handles maritime exposure well.
Notes
There is some confusion over whether this name is for a plant in Eurasia or America. Also put in the family Chenopodiaceae.
Names & Synonyms
Waada
References (4)
- Couture, M. D., 1978, Recent and Contemporary Foraging Practices of the Harney Valley Paiute. Thesis, Portland State University
- Coutre, M. D., et al, 1986, Foraging Behaviour of a Contemporary Northern Great Basin Population. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology Vol. 8(2) pp 150-160
- Moerman, D. F., 2010, Native American Ethnobotany. Timber Press. p 546
- Plants for a Future database, The Field, Penpol, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, PL22 0NG, UK. http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/
