noun

• Any plant of the salt-tolerant genus Salicornia, once burned to produce the ash used to make soda glass.
• Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash.
• Species of the European genus Sarcocornia
• Species of the Australian genus Tecticornia
• Arthrocnemum subterminale (Parish's glasswort)
• Eriogonum salicornioides (glasswort buckwheat)
• Kali turgida
• Other salt-tolerant plants, called samphire.
• rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum)
• golden samphire (Inula crithmoides, now Limbarda crithmoides)