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Crithmum
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Crithmum

Crithmum is a genus of flowering plant with the sole species Crithmum maritimum, known as samphire, rock samphire, or sea fennel. Rock samphire is an edible wild plant. It is found on southern and western coasts of Britain and Ireland, on mediterranean and western coasts of Europe including the Canary Islands, North Africa and the Black Sea. "Samphire" is a name also used for several other unrelated species of coastal plant.

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1 branches of this genus, most-observed first

rock samphire

speciesCrithmum maritimum

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Crithmum in Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter

Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter

Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.660

Crithmum in Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter

Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter

Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.662

Crithmum in Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter

Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter

Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.658

Crithmum in Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter

Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter

Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.659

Crithmum in Six Groups of the History of Plants

Six Groups of the History of Plants

Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.714

Crithmum in Six Groups of the History of Plants

Six Groups of the History of Plants

Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.714

Crithmum in Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden

Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden

Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.271

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 82611.