Salicornia rubra

{{Short description|Species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae}}

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|image=Salicornia rubra — Matt Lavin 010.jpg

|image_caption=Inflorescences

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|image2_caption=In a saline seep in Montana

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|status_system = TNC

|genus=Salicornia

|species=rubra

|authority=A.Nelson

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• Salicornia borealis {{small|S.L.Wolff & Jefferies}}
• Salicornia europaea var. prona {{small|(Lunell) B.Boivin}}
• Salicornia europaea subsp. rubra {{small|(A.Nelson) Breitung}}
• Salicornia rubra var. prona {{small|Lunell}}

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Salicornia rubra, the Rocky Mountain glasswort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae.{{cite web |title=Salicornia rubra A.Nelson |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/5383950 |website=gbif.org |publisher=GBIF Secretariat |author=GBIF Backbone Taxonomy |access-date=2 February 2022 }} It is native to colder or higher areas of North America; the Yukon, Nunavut, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario in Canada, and the western and north-central United States. It has been introduced to Quebec and Michigan, and has gone extinct in Illinois.{{cite POWO |id=225560-2 |title=Salicornia rubra A.Nelson |access-date=2 February 2022 }} A halophyte, it is one of the most salt-tolerant plants of North America.{{cite journal |title=Germination responses of Salicornia rubra to temperature and salinity |year=2000 |last1=Ajmal Khan |first1=M. |last2=Gul |first2=Bilquees |last3=Weber |first3=Darrell J. |journal=Journal of Arid Environments |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=207–214 |bibcode=2000JArEn..45..207A |doi=10.1006/jare.2000.0640 }}