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• He serves short ribs, potatoes, fried bone marrow, corn puree and pickled sea beans glasswort. Top Chef All Stars Ep. 12: A Final Five!
• So I repaired to slightly higher ground away from the bank, found a nice black mangrove to provide some shade and plopped down on a bed of glasswort.
• Finally, I drove eastwards towards Sheppey, past Funton Creek, where reptilian glasswort plants replenish seed-stocks for hungry wildfowl, to Bedlam's Bottom to enjoy a glowing sunset.
• The site's extensive salt marshes are dominated by a mixture of saltmarsh cordgrass, salt grass, black needlerush, sea ox-eye, glasswort and sea lavender. North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve
• Salt marshes are the most prevalent types of tidal marshes and are characterized by salttolerant plants such as smooth cordgrass, saltgrass, and glasswort. Wetland
• The slender bright green glasswort that grows on northern beaches was called tétine-de-souris, literally, a mouse tit. Champlain's Dream
• It would have been a great convenience if everyone had agreed long ago to call marsh samphire by its alternative name glasswort (given because it used to be burned to provide alkali for glass-makers).
• Marsh samphire, as noted above, is also known as glasswort from its former use in soda glass manufacture.
• The intertidal marsh in North Inlet is dominated by smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), while the high marsh community contains a mix of species, including smooth cordgrass, black needlerush, sea oxeye, salt grass, salt hay, salt marsh fimbristylis, glassworts, marsh elder and others. North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina
• The higher zones support halophytes such as glasswort Salicornia ramossissima with seablite Suaeda sp. and Arthrocnemum perenne. Doñana National Park, Spain