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Salicornia europaea
Salicornia europaea, known as marsh samphire, common glasswort or just glasswort, is a halophytic annual dicot flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae. Glasswort is a succulent herb also known as "pickle weed" or "marsh samphire". As a succulent, it has high water content, which accounts for its slightly translucent look and gives it the descriptive name "glasswort". To some people, it is known as "chicken toe" because of its shape. To others, it is called "saltwort"....
5 branches of this group, most-observed first
Common Glasswort
speciesSalicornia europaea
perennial-jointed glasswort
speciesSalicornia perennans
Purple Glasswort
speciesSalicornia ramosissima
One-flowered Glasswort
speciesSalicornia disarticulata
Salicornia × marshallii
hybridSalicornia × marshallii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1149072.