Salicornia rubra: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
- Genus
- Salicornia
- Species
- Salicornia rubra
- Scientific Name
- Salicornia rubra
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Salicornia rubra
Salicornia rubra, commonly known as the red glasswort or Rocky Mountain glasswort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is native to colder or higher areas of North America; the Yukon, Nunavut, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario in Canada, and the western and north-central United States. It has been introduced to Quebec and Michigan, and has gone extinct in Illinois. A halophyte, it is one of the most salt-tolerant plants of North America.
...Salicornia rubra in languages:
- English
- Western Glasswort
- English
- red swampfire
- English
- Red Saltwort
- English
- Rocky Mountain glasswort
- English
- red glasswort
- French
- salicorne rouge
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Perennes
- Salicornia bigelovii
- Salicornia borealis
- Salicornia borysthenica
- Salicornia brachiata
- Salicornia depressa
- Salicornia dunensis
- Salicornia europaea
- Salicornia fragilis
- Salicornia maritima
- Salicornia meyeriana
- Salicornia nitens
- Salicornia obscura
- Salicornia pachystachya
- Salicornia perrieri
- Salicornia procumbens
- Salicornia rubra
- Salicornia sinus-persica
- Salicornia uniflora
- Salicornia veneta































































































































































