Yellow Glasswort - Salicornia fragilis
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Species Description
Nationally scarce. Scattered and very patchy around coasts throughout the UK; most common from Liverpool to Heysham. Habitat includes: Open mud and muddy sand on intertidal flats, lowest saltmarsh etc. Growing habit: Annual. Height: Up to 40 cm. Flowers: August to September.
Stace 4:
Salicornia fragilis P.W. Ball & Tutin (?S. procumbens Sm., S. lutescens P.W. Ball & Tutin) - Yellow Glasswort.
Usually erect, little- to much-branched, to 40cm, becoming yellowish-green to bright yellow, sometimes suffused with red or purple; terminal spike (15)25-80(100)mm; lower fertile segments more or less cylindrical, 3-5 x 3-6mm; 2n=36. Native; on lower parts of saltmarshes and along dykes and runnels; coasts of Britain and Ireland North to Central Scotland.
Key:
- Lower fertile segments 3-6mm, 3-6mm wide at narrowest point; plant becoming pale green to yellowish, sometimes tinged purple
- Terminal spike more or less cylindrical, of 6-15(22) fertile segments; plant becoming yellowish-green to bright yellow
Useful Links:
Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora
Kew placed as a synonym of S. procumbens. ssp. procumbens