samphire

Samphire is a name given to a number of succulent salt-tolerant plants (halophytes) that tend to be associated with water bodies.

Rock samphire, Crithmum maritimum is a coastal species with white flowers that grows in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man. This is probably the species mentioned by Shakespeare in King Lear.
Golden samphire, Limbarda crithmoides is a coastal species with yellow flowers that grows across Eurasia.
Several species in the genus Salicornia, known as "marsh samphire" in Britain.
Blutaparon vermiculare, Central America, southeastern North America
Tecticornia, Australia
Sarcocornia, cosmopolitan.

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