noun

• One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
• Marsh samphire, glasswort (genus Salicornia), a plant once burned to produce ash used to make soda glass.
• Rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum).
• Golden samphire (Inula crithmoides, now Limbarda crithmoides).
• Borrichia arborescens of the West Indies.
• Plants of genus Sarcocornia
• Plants of genus Tecticornia