Beta maritima

Kıyı pancarı

Syn: Beta vulgaris ssp maritima

Glabrous or weakly hairy annual or perennial, erect or prostrate, 1-many-stemmed. Leaves narrowly ovate or deltoid, long-petiolate, margins crinkled. Flowers solitary or in groups of 2-8, united in glomeruli in the axils of small, linear, or larger, elliptic-ovate bracts in paniculate, sometimes long-branched inflorescences. Perianth up to 3 mm, connivent above the fruit, the segments ± triangular or spathulate, entire, ± strongly keeled, narrowly membranous-margined. Fl. 5-8. On sand near the coast, scattered inland in waste places.

1-Plant glabrous var. maritima

1-Plant hairy

   2-Plant with scattered hairs especially below var. pilosa

   2-Plant with scattered long hairs and a felt of smaller crisped hairs var. grisea

Coasts of Europe, Asia, N. Africa and on salty soils inland.