Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common glasswort (Salicornia europaea) growing on regenerated saltmarsh habitat, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK, July 2011

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common glasswort (Salicornia europaea) growing on regenerated saltmarsh habitat, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK, July

Doug Wechsler / Marsh samphire (Salicornia europaea) on salt marsh. Delaware NJ USA

Lynn M. Stone / English Springer Spaniel in salt marsh with red Glasswort, Connecticut, USA. October.

Lynn M. Stone / English Setter in salt marsh with red Glasswort, Connecticut, USA. October.

Lynn M. Stone / Glasswort (Salicornia sp.) in autumn red, growing in salt marsh pannes adjacent to Long Island Sound, Connecticut, USA. October.

Lynn M. Stone / Glasswort (Salicornia sp.) in autumn red, growing in salt marsh adjacent to Long Island Sound, Connecticut, USA. October.

David Tipling / Samphire (Salicornia sp) on saltmarsh. Holkham National Nature Reserve, North Norfolk, England, UK. October.

David Tipling / Samphire (Salicornia sp) in saltmarsh. Holkham National Nature Reserve, North Norfolk, England, UK. October.

Mike Read / Sardinian warbler (Sylvia melanocephala) perched in Glasswort (Salicornia europaea) Ria Formosa Nature Reserve, Algarve, Portugal, February.

David Tipling / Marsh samphire / Glasswort (Salicornia europaea) on salt marsh in autumn, Stiffkey marshes, North Norfolk, UK October

David Tipling / Marsh samphire / Glasswort (Salicornia europaea) on salt marsh at Stiffkey marshes, North Norfolk, UK October

Jean E. Roche / Glaucous glasswort (Arthrocnemum glaucum) and glasswort (Salicornia sp), Camargue, France, July.

Jean E. Roche / Annual seablite (Suaeda maritima) and glasswort (Salicornia sp), Camargue, France, July.

Jean E. Roche / Glasswort (Salicornia emerici), Camargue, France, July.

Nick Upton / Common glasswort / Marsh samphire (Salicornia europeae) growing on a saltmarsh, RSPB Arne, Dorset, July.

Nick Upton / Common glasswort / Marsh samphire (Salicornia europeae) growing on a saltmarsh, RSPB Arne, Dorset, July.

David Tipling / Samphire (Salicornia europaea) Salthouse, Norfolk, UK, July.

Zoltan Nagy / Common Pratincole (Glareola pratincola) among salt marsh vegetation, near the Danube Delta and the coastal lagoons. Vadu, Romania, June.

Zoltan Nagy / Common Pratincole (Glareola pratincola) among salt marsh vegetation, near the Danube Delta and the coastal lagoons. Vadu, Romania, May.

Zoltan Nagy / Common Pratincoles (Glareola pratincola) among salt marsh vegetation, near the Danube Delta and the coastal lagoons. Vadu, Romania, May.

Philippe Clement / Marsh samphire (Salicornia europaea) growing in salt pan for the production of Fleur de sel / sea salt on the island Ile de Re, Charente-Maritime, France September 2012

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common sea lavender (Limonium vulgare) and Common glasswort (Salicornia europaea) growing on regenerated saltmarsh habitat, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK, July 2011

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common glasswort (Salicornia europaea) growing on regenerated saltmarsh habitat, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK, July 2011

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common glasswort (Salicornia europaea) growing on regenerated saltmarsh habitat, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK, July 2011

Laurie Campbell / Glasswort / Marsh samphire (Salicornia europaea) Aberlady Local Nature Reserve, Firth of Forth, East Lothian, Scotland, September

Toby Roxburgh / Samphire (Salicornia genus) growing on the shore near Holy Island, Northumberland, England, 2010.

Toby Roxburgh / Samphire (Salicornia genus) growing on the shore near Holy Island, Northumberland, England, 2010.

Edwin Giesbers / Glasswort (Salicornia fruticosa) in flower, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Edwin Giesbers / Glasswort (Salicornia fruticosa) on coastal salt marsh, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe May 2009

Jean E. Roche / Glasswort {Salicornia sp} Camargue, France

Philippe Clement / Marsh samphire (Salicornia europaea) growing in cracked dry mud, Belgium

Philippe Clement / Marsh samphire (Salicornia europaea) growing in cracked dry mud, Belgium

Gary K. Smith / Woman picking Samphire / Glasswort (Salicornia sp.) North Norfolk saltmarshes, England, UK, August

Gary K. Smith / Woman picking Samphire / Glasswort (Salicornia sp.) North Norfolk saltmarshes, England, UK, August

Gary K. Smith / Hand full of Samphire (Salicornia sp.) freshly picked on North Norfolk saltmarshes, England, UK, August

Philippe Clement / Marsh samphire / Glasswort (Salicornia europaea) on a salt marsh turning red, Belgium

Philippe Clement / Marsh samphire / Glasswort (Salicornia europaea) on a salt marsh turning red, Belgium

Philippe Clement / Marsh samphire / Glasswort (Salicornia europaea) on a salt marsh turning red, Belgium

Fabio Liverani / Glasswort (Salicornia genus) on Playa de Sotovento (Beach of Under Wind), Fuerteventura, Canary Isles, Spain, September 2007

Fabio Liverani / Glasswort (Salicornia genus) on Playa de Sotovento (Beach of Under Wind), Fuerteventura, Canary Isles, Spain, September 2007

Jean E. Roche / Glasswort {Salicornia sp} Camargue, France

Jean E. Roche / Marsh samphire {Salicornia europaea} growing on Camargue, France

Philippe Clement / Marsh samphire {Salicornia europaea} growing in cracked dry mud, Belgium

Philippe Clement / Marsh samphire turning red {Salicornia europaea} Belgium

Flip de Nooyer / Glasswort (Salicornia procumbens) colorful salt tolerant shrub, Netherlands

Jose B. Ruiz / Glaucous glasswort {Arthrocnemum macrostachyum} El Hondo NP, Alicante, Spain

Jose B. Ruiz / Glasswort (Arthrocemum sp) Alicante, Spain

Jose B. Ruiz / Glasswort {Arthrocnemum glaucum} Spain

David Woodfall / Glasswort (Salicornia) colonising mud flats of the Severn estuary, England, UK April 2010

Niall Benvie / Marsh samphire {Salicornia europaea} Scotland UK

Lynn M. Stone / Glasswort (Salicornia sp) turning salt marsh along tidal river pink in autumn. Long Island Sound, Madison, Connecticut, USA. September.