Some Common Plants of Upper Newport Bay
Common Name Halophytes Index
Alkali Heath
(Frankenia salina)		 Alkali Weed
(Cressa truxillensis)
Australian Saltbush
(Atriplex semibaccata)		 Brass-buttons
(Cotula coronopifolia)
Brewer's Saltbush
(Atriplex lentiformis ssp. Breweri)		 Bulrush
(Scirpus ssp.)
Coastal Woolly Heads
(Nemacaulis denudata)		 Cordgrass
(Spartina foliosa)
Crystalline Ice Plant, Common Ice Plant
(Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
Dodder
(Cuscuta salina)
Emory's Baccharis
(Baccharis emoryi)
Estuary Sea-blight
(Suaeda esteroa)
Fourwing Saltbush
(Atriplex canescens)
Marsh Fleabane
(Pluchea odorata)
Marsh Rosemary
(Limonium perezii)		 Pickleweed - Bigelovii
(Salicornia bigelovii)
Pickleweed - Virginica
(Salicornia Virginica)		Red Goosefoot,
Alkali Goosefoot
(Chenopodium rubrum)
Province Sea-lavender
(Limonium ramosissimum)		 Saltgrass
(Distichlis spicata)
Salt Marsh Birds Beak
(Cordylanthus maritimus)		 Sea Lavender
(Limonium californicum)
Saltwort
(Batis Maritima)		 Salty Susan,
Fleshy Jaumea
(Jaumea carnosa)
Sharp-leafed Rush
(Juncus acutus ssp. leopoldii)
Shoregrass,
Wiregrass
(Monanthochloe littoralis)
Slender Arrow Grass
(Triglochin concinna)		 Slender-leaved Ice Plant,
Small-flowered Ice Plant 
(Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum)
Spearscale Saltbush
(Atriplex triangularis)		 Statice, Winged Sea Lavender
(Limonium sinuatum)
Watson's Saltbush
(Atriplex watsonii)		 Wild Heliotrope,
Salt Heliotrope
(Heliotropium curassavicum)
Woolly Sea-blight
(Suaeda taxifolia)		 Yerba Mansa
(Anemopsis californica)
  Date: 4/8/2011