6 or 7 Tidestromia is a genus with about six or seven species of annual or subshrub perennial plants native to desert and semi-arid regions of the western United States, Mexico and tropical America in the family Amaranthaceae.
A common name of some species is honeysweet.
[1] The stems are reddish and contrast conspicuously with the silvery leaves.
This genus is named for the botanist Ivar Tidestrom.
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