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pickleweeds
Salicornia
Salicornia is a genus of succulent, halophytic (salt tolerant) flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae that grow in salt marshes, on beaches, and among mangroves. Salicornia species are native to North America, Europe, central Asia, and southern Africa. Common names for the genus include glasswort, pickleweed, picklegrass, and marsh samphire; these common names are also used for some species not in Salicornia. To French speakers in Atlantic Canada, they are known colloquially as tétines de souris ('mouse tits'). The main European species is often eaten, called marsh samphire in Britain, and the main North American species is occasionally sold in grocery stores or appears on restaurant menus as sea beans, samphire greens, or sea asparagus.
20 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Common Glassworts
sectionPerennes
Salicornia europaea
complexSalicornia europaea
Virginia Glasswort
speciesSalicornia depressa
Dwarf Glasswort
speciesSalicornia bigelovii
red glasswort
speciesSalicornia rubra
Salicornia procumbens
complexSalicornia procumbens
Boreal Saltwort
speciesSalicornia borealis
slender glasswort
speciesSalicornia maritima
Annual Glasswort
speciesSalicornia meyeriana
Many-flower Glasswort
speciesSalicornia pachystachya
Salicornia veneta
speciesSalicornia veneta
Salicornia brachiata
speciesSalicornia brachiata
Salicornia fragilis
speciesSalicornia fragilis
Few-flower Glasswort
speciesSalicornia perrieri
Salicornia borysthenica
speciesSalicornia borysthenica
Salicornia sinus-persica
speciesSalicornia sinus-persica
Glaucous Glasswort
speciesSalicornia obscura
Lüderitz Glasswort
speciesSalicornia dunensis
Lonely Glasswort
speciesSalicornia uniflora
Shiny Glasswort
speciesSalicornia nitens
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Stirpium adversaria nova
Matthias de Lobel · 1571 · p.194
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.141
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.102
Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.236
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.47
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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 52617.