saltwort

1 bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash [syn: barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda]

2 low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves [syn: Batis maritima]

Saltwort is a common name used for three different genera, not all related, of flowering plants:

• Batis, family Bataceae
• Salicornia and Salsola, family Amaranthaceae