saltwort

• Sammelbezeichnung für verschiedene salztolerante Pflanzen, insbesondere der Gattungen Salsola und Salicornia, die an Salzböden und Meeresküsten vorkommen; teils dornige Sträucher der Alten Welt, teils niedrige sukkulente Küstensträucher der warmen Regionen der Neuen Welt.

A noun referring to a bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches with prickly leaves, or a low-growing coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World with thick succulent leaves.

1. Bushy Old World plantC2formal

   A bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches with prickly leaves, historically burned to produce crude soda ash.

   Salzkraut

   • Saltwort was once harvested for its ash, used in glassmaking.
   • The prickly leaves of saltwort are adapted to salty environments.
   • Saltwort grows abundantly in coastal salt marshes.

   Synonymebarillaglasswortkelpwort

2. Coastal New World shrubC2formalamerican

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

   Küstenstrauch der Neuen Welt

   • Saltwort thrives in sandy, saline soils along the coast.
   • The thick leaves of saltwort store water for dry periods.
   • This saltwort species has distinctive conelike flower spikes.