annuals on pale reddish quartz sands of an outlier of low semi-stabilized dunes, north of the active dune field in the Mdanos de Samalayuca Natural Protected Area.
While frequent along protected shores of Morro Bay, Sueada californica is uncommon on exposed coast in San Luis Obispo Co. Four plants found on a small sandy strand on a coastal drainage protected by offshore rock reef. Plants are slightly more hairy than estuary plants.