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Saltwort

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Saltwort is a common name for various genera of flowering plants that thrive in salty environments, typically in coastal salt marshes and seashores, including:

  • Salsola
  • Seidlitzia
  • Salicornia
  • Tecticornia
  • Sarcocornia
  • Suaeda
  • Halogeton
  • and others: the above genera are in the family Amaranthaceae, which contains certain other saltwort genera not mentioned above, but not all Amaranthaceae are saltworts.
  • Batis, in the family Bataceae

    • See also glasswort – glassworts are saltworts, and saltworts can be glassworts

    See also Saltbush aka Atriplex, a genus thriving in salty environments

    References

    Saltwort Wikipedia
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