seablite

Protected from the sea by a long, low sand bar, an expanse of salt marsh sits in a shallow bowl edged by a broken ring of shrubby seablite.

Country diary: Holme Dunes, Norfolk 2011

The higher zones support halophytes such as glasswort Salicornia ramossissima with seablite Suaeda sp. and Arthrocnemum perenne.

Doñana National Park, Spain 2008

The small salt marsh on the southeastern shore provides habitat for seablite, a plant species common in other areas of the country, but rare in Rhode Island.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island 2007

Endangered Species: The salt marsh contains the seablite, a plant species common in other areas of the country, but rare in Rhode Island.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island 2007

Few non-botanists would give a California seablite plant a second glance.

SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

"The East Bay sites are deep sand and mud, and seablite is doing best on the lower, muddier sand sites with lots of tidal litter."

SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

According to coastal ecologist Peter Baye, who has studied seablite and helped with its restoration, the plant may never have been locally common.

SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

The construction of the Oakland Airport may have been the final blow for the California seablite.

SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

With that protected status came the idea of re-establishing seablite around San Francisco Bay, where waves and currents had created new beaches.

SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

The draft recovery plan for California seablite and the other marsh species includes goals to be met before the plant can be moved from the endangered to the threatened category, or removed from the endangered species list entirely.

SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010