''Salicornia rubra'', the Rocky Mountain glasswort, is a species of flowering plant in the family

Amaranthaceae Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to its type genus ''Amaranthus''. It includes the former goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae and contains about 165 genera and 2,040 species, making it ...

. 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 US. It has been introduced to Quebec and Michigan, and has gone extinct in Illinois. A

halophyte A halophyte is a salt-tolerant plant that grows in soil or waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs and seashores. T ...

, it is one of the most salt-tolerant plants of North America.

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rubra Halophytes Flora of Yukon Flora of Nunavut Flora of Western Canada Flora of Ontario Flora of the Northwestern United States Flora of Nevada Flora of Utah Flora of New Mexico Flora of North Dakota Flora of South Dakota Flora of Nebraska Flora of Kansas Flora of Minnesota Flora of Iowa Plants described in 1899 Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Amaranthaceae-stub