Arthrocaulon macrostachyum
A woody, glaucous glasswort with jointed, leafless succulent stems that forms low shrubs in Mediterranean and Saharan salt marshes. It is a true halophyte: it needs full sun, salty or brackish conditions and a mild winter, and tends to decline in ordinary potting soil.
Where it grows wild
Forms dense shrubby stands in the upper parts of coastal salt marshes, salt flats and inland saline depressions, on soils that are waterlogged and salty in winter and dry and crusted in summer.
Almost entirely at sea level (median 2 m); inland saline sites reach a few hundred metres.
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