Other common salt marsh plants include black rush, saltwort, marsh lavender and marsh elder. From Wordnik.com. [Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island] Reference
Above the Spartina-dominated community are found several succulents, including pickleweed and saltwort. From Wordnik.com. [Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, California] Reference
Glasswort, saltwort, salt grasses and oxeye are other salt-tolerant plants that exist in and around the marsh. From Wordnik.com. [Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, Georgia] Reference
Large areas on the alluvial saline plains are characterized by halophytic plant communities including Artemisia pauciflora, A. schrenkiana, A. nitrosa and perennial saltwort (Atriplex cana, Anabasis salsa, and Camphorosma monspeliaca). From Wordnik.com. [Kazakh semi-desert] Reference
It appeared that the saltwort plants, which were numerous, were not only efficacious in keeping the cattle that fed on them in the best possible condition; but as wholly preventing cattle and sheep from licking clay, a vicious habit to which they are so prone, that grassy runs in the higher country nearer Sydney are sometimes abandoned only on account of the “licking holes” they contain. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
Batis maritima, known as turtleweed or saltwort, a plant found on the salt marshes of the southeastern US and California. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
The sodium carbonate concentration in soda ash varied very widely, from 2-3\% for the seaweed-derived form ( "kelp"), to 30\% for the best barilla produced from saltwort plants in Spain. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
The other principal productions of the colony are a species of salsola, or saltwort, called by the natives canna, which affords potash for the soap which is manufactured for domestic use; salt, which is obtained by mere evaporation from numerous lakes; and aloes, natural plantations of which cover a large tract of ground. From Wordnik.com. [Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund] Reference
Occurs only in Job 30: 4 (R.V., "saltwort"). From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Other shrubs include gray sparrow’s saltwort (Salsola passerina), gray sagebrush (Artemisia xerophytics), Potaninia mongolica, and Nitraria sibirica. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Gobi desert steppe] Reference
How could you not order one packet each of saltwort, sneezewort, motherwort, and Saint-John’s-wort, plus a sample of mad-dog skullcap, which the text said was once a folk remedy for rabies?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dirty Life] Reference
Shrub communities around lakes include: Caragana pygmaea, Caragana bungei, Ceratoides paposa, Salsola arbuscula, Artemisia xantochroa, Salsola passerina, Kalidium gracile, Reaumuria soongarica, Haloxylon ammodendron or various saltwort species (e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Gobi Lakes Valley desert steppe] Reference
In ancient times some Mr. Bell (?) was sailing this way in his ark with seeds of rocket, saltwort, sandwort, beachgrass, samphire, bayberry, poverty-grass, &c., all nicely labelled with directions, intending to establish a nursery somewhere; and did not a nursery get established, though he thought that he had failed?. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod] Reference
Dunes in Ecoregion 84c support only a few species of grasses and other xerophytic herbaceous plants: 1) In the primary dune zone just inland of the beach, there is a sparse cover of dune grass and other members of its community, such as sea rocket, dusty miller, saltwort, and seaside spurge; 2) immediately inland, beach heather, together with a few members of the dune grass community, grow in swales and on flats; 3) further inland, in the secondary dune zone, is a low, shrub thicket primarily composed of bayberry, beach plum, shadbush, and highbush blueberry, with some low red cedar and scrub oak; and 4) in moist, protected hollows and swales of the secondary dune zone there are dune woodlands composed of American holly, black cherry, red cedar, red maple, pitch pine, hackberry, and sassafras. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.