saltwort

Any of several plants of the genus Salsola, native to Eurasia and widely naturalized elsewhere, having stiff, prickly leaves and growing on seashores and in semiarid areas.

A low-growing succulent shrub (Batis maritima) native to warm coastal regions of the Americas, having small yellow flowers and thick aromatic leaves.

A name of several maritime plants, particularly the alkaline plants Salsola Kali (also called prickly glasswort) and S. oppositifolia: applied also to the glassworts Salicornia. The two genera are alike in habit and uses. See alkali and glasswort.

A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See glasswort.

the sea milkwort.

Batis maritima, a plant distributed in the southwestern United States, Caribbean, and South America in coastal saltmarshes.

Glaux maritima, a plant in the primrose family (Primulaceae) and which grows along coasts throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash

low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves