Samphire is a name given to a number of succulent salt-tolerant plants (halophytes) that tend to be associated with water bodies. * Rock samphire, Crithmum maritimum is a coastal species with white flowers that grows in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man. This is probably the species mentioned by Shakespeare in King Lear. * Golden samphire, Limbarda crithmoides is a coastal species with yellow flowers that grows across Eurasia. * Several species in the genus Salicornia, known as "marsh samphire" in Britain. * Blutaparon vermiculare, Central America, southeastern North America * Tecticornia, Australia * Sarcocornia, cosmopolitan.