SEA PURSLANE
Atriplex portulacoides
is a hardy annual with its subsiding growth and whitish, leathery but fleshy leaves, which make it a leaf succulent.
With such leaves it manages to retain more fresh water, which it otherwise lacks in this salty environment. It thrives on salty but quite dry ground – sandy silt. Together with other halophytes it constitutes salt meadows of halophilous perennials, the type of habitat that is today considered rare and endangered.