blite

Blite could refer to any one of the following plants:

Whatever you call it, strawberry blite should be 18 to 24 inches tall at maturity, and it's difficult to know what befell yours.

Strawberry blite is an annual.

Niara reba blite kuin.

Sea blite (Suaeda asparagoides)

Strawberry blite (Chenopodium capitatum, formerly of the genus Blitum)

Common halophytes found in the Back Bay include: saltmarsh bird's beak (Cordylanthus maritimus), fleshy jaumea, sea lavender, brewer's salt brush, sea blite, and alkali heath.

A. Strawberry spinach, also known as strawberry blite ("blite" is the Middle English word for wild spinach), has had a number of different Latin names through the years.

Though the plants may have been stunted by intense heat or excessive shade, strawberry blite is a weed at heart, and keeping it from taking over is more likely to be an issue than getting it to grow.

As long as you harvest them when they are young, tender and mild, all three are delicious as cooked greens, but only strawberry blite, a k a beet-berry, also produces the small bright red fruits that give it its common names.

At least 47 rare, threatened or endangered plants live here, including the sea-beach amaranth, a plant found only here and in the Carolinas, and the sea blite, a fleshy green plant that lives along the Jamaica Bay shores, one of its 10 habitats around the world.