title: Saltwort
text: # Saltwort
  
  Saltwort is a common name for various genera of flowering plants that thrive in salty environments, typically in coastal salt marshes and seashores, including:
  
     * Salsola and related genera within subfamily Salsoloideae
  
     * Salicornia
  
     * Tecticornia
  
     * Sarcocornia
  
     * Suaeda
  
     * Halogeton
  
     * and others: the above genera are in the family Amaranthaceae, which contains certain other saltwort genera not mentioned above, but not all Amaranthaceae are saltworts.
  
     * Batis, in the family Bataceae
  
  The ashes of these plants yield soda ash, which is an important ingredient for glassmaking and soapmaking.
  
  See also glasswort – glassworts are saltworts, and saltworts can be glassworts
  
  See also Saltbush aka Atriplex, a genus thriving in salty environments
  
  