It lives underwater as an aquatic plant for half of the year and on dry land as a terrestrial plant for the other half due to the changing levels of the lakes that it inhabits.

[3] This species is important for people that live in the states of Puebla and Tlaxcala, as it is an edible vegetable.

[5] Due to differences in its phylogenetic position in its nuclear ITS tree and its chloroplast rpl32-trnL tree, it is thought this species is the result of hybridization of ancestral species of Suaeda.

[6] The first scientific collector who found this plant was Efraim Hernández Xolocotzi.

It was in 2013 that Ernesto Alvarado Reyes and Hilda Flores Olvera noticed it was a different species.