| Salicornia europaea L. | |||
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| Family | Chenopodiaceae — APG family: Amaranthaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salicornia herbacea L. | ||
| Common name | glasswort | ||
| Description | Simple or branched annual; segments articulate, longer than broad, with con- vex sides, often reddish when in fruit; leaves succulent, translucent, glabrous; flowers in terminal, more or less branched, spikes, with axillary, 3-flowered cymes; lateral flowers smaller than central flowers. | ||
| Ecology | Saline and alkaline soil. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map tentative; broken line indicates range of subsp. riibra (Nels.) Breitung (S. rubra Nels.). |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.