A round clump of Salicornia. It's a flowering plant, but the leaves and tiny flowers are so tightly attached to the stems that it looks like a bunch of segmented stems. These are green with red tips; two plants next to it, on the edge of the photo, are still almost all green. On a stony beach.
Pickleweed, aka Glasswort, sea beans, sea asparagus, samphire ... Salicornia sp. Salt-tolerant, growing at the high tide line, in the splash zone. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/08/wher... #VancouverIsland #Plants #Halophytes #SaltTolerantPlants #Nature
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