glasswort

glass +‎ wort

glasswort (countable and uncountable, plural glassworts)

1. Any plant of the salt-tolerant genus Salicornia (syn. Sarcocornia), once burned to produce the ash used to make soda glass.
2. Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.
   1. Species of the Australian genus Tecticornia
   2. Arthrocnemum subterminale (Parish's glasswort)
   3. Eriogonum salicornioides (glasswort buckwheat)
   4. Kali turgidum
3. Other salt-tolerant plants, called samphire.
   1. rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum)
   2. golden samphire (Inula crithmoides, now Limbarda crithmoides)

• (Salicornia): marsh samphire

• American glasswort (Salicornia virginica)
• bead glasswort (Tecticornia flabelliformis)
• beaded glasswort (Salicornia quinqueflora, syn. Sarcocornia quinqueflora)
• blackseed glasswort (Tecticornia pergranulata)
• common glasswort (Salicornia europaea)
• dwarf glasswort (Salicornia bigelovii)
• glasswort buckwheat (Eriogonum salicornioides)
• jointed glasswort (Salicornia spp.)
• Pacific glasswort (Salicornia pacifica, syn. Sarcocornia pacifica)
• Parish's glasswort (Arthrocnemum subterminale)
• perennial glasswort (Salicornia perennis, syn. Sarcocornia perennis)
• prickly glasswort (Kali turgidum, Salsola kali))
• purple glasswort (Salicornia ramosissima)
• shrubby glasswort (Tecticornia arbuscula)
• slender glasswort (Salicornia maritima)
• thick-head glasswort (Salicornia blackiana, syn. Sarcocornia blackiana)
• Virginia glasswort (Salicornia virginica)
• woody glasswort (Salicornia virginica)