
Plant Allergy Overview
Allergenicity
Mild
Pollen Season
Summer Fall
Type
Weed
Sub-Type
Annual
Allergy Information
This genus is not commonly cited as a source of allergy.
Genus Details
Saltwort is native to Europe, Asia and North America. Saltwort is an annual that can grow to 2' tall. The leaves are scaly and turn a brilliant red in the fall. Saltwart grows in salty marshes.
Pollen Description
The pollen grains of these families are spheroidal and pantoporate; the pores 20-65 per grain, usually circular, either globally distributed or in luminoid areas separated by muroid ridges; and the opercular granular. The sexine is often tegillate, undulating with a granular surface that is spinulose. The nexine is as thick as or often thinner than the sexine and the intine is generally thick or indistinct.
The pollen grains are 14-50 micrometers in diameter.
Genus Distribution

The shaded areas on the map indicates where the genus has been observed in the United States.



Species in Saltwort Genus
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