Salicornia europaeaL.

glasswort

WFO wfo-0000435635 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Salicornia europaea, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. a WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-23 / obs. 190176465
Salicornia europaea, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. b WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190173857
Salicornia europaea, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. c WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189279811
Salicornia europaea, photographed by Kudaibergen Amirekul
fig. d Kudaibergen Amirekul, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 160898861
Salicornia europaea, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. e Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 178914824
Salicornia europaea, photographed by Nigel Bentley
fig. f Nigel Bentley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139589237
Salicornia europaea, photographed by Ian Manning
fig. g Ian Manning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137482466
Salicornia europaea, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. h WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136130975

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Salicornia europaea is native: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden BelgiumDenmarkFinlandFranceGermanyIrelandNetherlandsNorwayPolandSpainSweden
Native distribution of Salicornia europaea, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belgium BGM EUROPE
Denmark DEN
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Ireland IRE
Netherlands NET
Norway NOR
Poland POL
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 20 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Salicornia annua Sm.
  • Salicornia biennis Afzel. ex Sm.
  • Salicornia brachystachya (G.Mey.) D.König
  • Salicornia brachystachya var. gracilis D.König
  • Salicornia europaea subsp. brachystachya (G.Mey.) R.Dahmen & Wissk.
  • Salicornia europaea subsp. europaea
  • Salicornia europaea subsp. simonkaiana Soó
  • Salicornia europaea var. europaea
  • Salicornia europaea var. herbacea L.
  • Salicornia herbacea (L.) L.
  • Salicornia herbacea var. annua (Sm.) Pursh
  • Salicornia herbacea var. biennis (Afzel. ex Sm.) Fiori
  • Salicornia herbacea var. brachystachya G.Mey.
  • Salicornia herbacea var. gracilis G.Mey.
  • Salicornia herbacea var. polystachya W.D.J.Koch
  • Salicornia herbacea var. simplex Pursh
  • Salicornia ramosissima var. gracilis (D.König) Soó
  • Salicornia rubra var. prona Lunell
  • Salicornia simonkaiana Soó
  • Salicornia stricta Dumort.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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