Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Purple Glasswort, Salicornia ramosissima
Photographs: Tramore, Co. Waterford

Purple Glasswort
Salicornia ramosissima
Family: Chenopodiaceae

Flowering August-October. Annual. Native.

Very variable in colour and habitat and difficult to distinguish from S. europaea. Flowers are in threes on knobbly, dark-green stems that become deep reddish-purple. Erect or procumbent growth with single or much-branched stems to 40cm. Identified by Paul Green

Coastal, on the middle and upper zones of salt-marshes. Mainly south and south-east Ireland.

Similar: Other Glassworts, Salicornia agg.

Purple Glasswort, Salicornia ramosissima
Purple Glasswort, Salicornia ramosissima

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