saltwort

The species was considered to be a "saltwort" plant.

Many sites where maritime saltwort occurs are subject to severe tropical storms.

The genus Salsola is also sometimes known as saltwort, but is unrelated.

Adults feed on nectar from various flowers including saltwort, lantana, and verbena.

A common name of various members of this genus (and related genera) is saltwort, for its salt tolerance.

In the north, desert and semi-desert vegetation is noted, including sagebrush, saltwort and feather-grass.

One way of reducing sodium carbonate is to cultivate glasswort or saltwort or barilla plants.

The word is an anglicization of the Spanish word barrilla for "saltwort" plants (a particular category of halophytes).

Few trees can survive in the conditions of this region, but plants-succulents like saltwort and glasswort-tolerate salt, brackish water, and desert conditions.

The plant has great historical importance as a source of soda ash, which was extracted from the ashes of Salsola soda and other saltwort plants.

The horses trotted past scrubby beach plums loaded with purple fruit, trampled spiky saltwort and marram grass under their feet.

A halophyte which is tolerant to residual sodium carbonate salinity are called glasswort or saltwort or barilla plants.

Salicornia bigelovii is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common names dwarf saltwort and dwarf glasswort.

Batis maritima (Saltwort /Beachwort) is a halophyte.

Prickly Saltwort (Kali turgida)

Drought-adapted shrubs in the desert included gray sparrow's saltwort, gray sagebrush, and low grasses such as needle grass and bridlegrass.

In the 18th century, Spain had an enormous industry producing "barilla" (one type of plant-derived soda ash) from saltwort plants (barrilla in Spanish).

Salsola - Saltwort, Tumbleweed, or Russian Thistle (family Chenopodiaceae)

In Spain the saltwort plants were called barilla and were the basis of a large industry in Spain in the 18th century; see barilla.

Date palms (near the oases), saltwort (used for making soda ash), spurge flax shrub, goosefoot, wormwood, and asphodel, cyrenaica are also reported in the wild.

The ashes of glasswort plants, and also of their Mediterranean counterpart saltwort plants, yield soda ash, which is an important ingredient for glassmaking and soapmaking.

The alkali of Syrian and Egyptian glass was soda ash, sodium carbonate, which can be extracted from the ashes of many plants, notably halophile seashore plants: (see saltwort).

In the medieval era it was harvested and burned and the ashes processed as a source for sodium carbonate for use in glass-making; see also glasswort and saltwort.

Characteristic of the flora are wild garlic, Kalidium gracile, wormwood, saxaul, Nitraria schoberi, Caragana, Ephedra, saltwort and the grass Lasiagrostis splendens.

Before soda was synonymous (in U.S. English) with soft drinks, the word referred to Salsola soda and other saltwort plants, and to "sodas" derived from soda ash.