saltbrush

Noun

saltbush (countable and uncountable, plural saltbushes)

1. Any of the genus Atriplex of plants, especially Atriplex hortensis or Atriplex patula, found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach, including many desert and seashore plants and halophytes.
   • The sand is cold beneath our bare feet and the dunes damp and spicy with marram grass and saltbush.1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 4

   Synonyms:

   orach

2. Sarcobatus vermiculatus (black greasewood, greasewood, seepwood)
3. Baccharis halimifolia

   Synonyms:

   consumption weed, eastern baccharis, groundsel bush, sea myrtle