Jaumea carnosa
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Jaumea carnosa, known by the common names marsh jaumea, fleshy jaumea, or simply jaumea, is a halophytic
salt marsh
plant native to the west coast of North America. It has succulent green leaves on soft pinkish-green stems, not unlike ice plant
in appearance. Its flowers are yellow. It spreads by an extensive rhizome
system.
Jaumea carnosa ranges from British Columbia to northern Baja California, and can be found in wetlands and salt marshes.
Halophyte
A halophyte is a plant that grows where it is affected by salinity in the root area or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs, and seashores. An example of a halophyte is the salt marsh grass Spartina alterniflora . Relatively few plant species are...
salt marsh
Salt marsh
A salt marsh is an environment in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and salt water or brackish water, it is dominated by dense stands of halophytic plants such as herbs, grasses, or low shrubs. These plants are terrestrial in origin and are essential to the stability of the salt marsh...
plant native to the west coast of North America. It has succulent green leaves on soft pinkish-green stems, not unlike ice plant
Ice Plant
Carpobrotus edulis is native to South Africa. It is also known as ice plant, Highway Ice Plant, Pigface or Hottentot Fig and in South Africa as the Sour Fig , on account of its edible fruit....
in appearance. Its flowers are yellow. It spreads by an extensive rhizome
Rhizome
In botany and dendrology, a rhizome is a characteristically horizontal stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes...
system.
Jaumea carnosa ranges from British Columbia to northern Baja California, and can be found in wetlands and salt marshes.