samphire

An edible coastal plant (Crithmum maritimum) in the parsley family, native to Eurasia, having fleshy compound leaves and small white flowers grouped in compound umbels, and sometimes pickled.

A succulent umbelliferous herb, Crithmum maritimum, growing in clefts of rocks close to the sea in western Europe and through the Mediterranean region.

Borrichia arborescens, a maritime shrub of the West Indies.

A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles.

The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); — called in England marsh samphire.

A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.

See under Golden.

One of several edible plants growing near the sea, including the rock samphire.

Glasswort, the plant once burned to produce the ash used to make soda glass.