noun

• Certain plants of various genera that grow in dry, alkali soils, including the following,
• of family Amaranthaceae, including
• Salsola and related genera within subfamily Salsoloideae
• Salicornia (syn. Sarcocornia) spp. (glasswort, pickleweed, swampfire, and marsh samphire)
• Tecticornia spp.
• Suaeda spp. (seepweeds or sea blites)
• Halogeton spp.
• of family Bataceae
• Batis spp.
• especially, Batis maritima, turtleweed, a plant distributed in the southwestern United States, Caribbean, and South America in coastal saltmarshes.
• of family Primulaceae (primroses)
• Lysimachia maritima (syn. Glaux maritima, sea milkwort, sea milkweed), which grows along coasts throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.