pickleweed

pickleweed
noun Date: circa 1925 any of several succulent plants having leaves often reduced to scales or sheaths: as a. glasswort b. a shrub (Allenrolfea occidentalis) of the goosefoot family growing in moist saline soils of the southwestern United States c. saltwort 2

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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