| Salicornia rubra | |
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| Inflorescences | |
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| In a saline seep in Montana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus: | Salicornia |
| Species: | S. rubra |
| Binomial name | |
| Salicornia rubra | |
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Salicornia rubra, the Rocky Mountain glasswort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae. [2] 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. [1] A halophyte, it is one of the most salt-tolerant plants of North America. [3]
