Adults feed on nectar from various flowers including saltwort, lantana, and verbena. One way of reducing sodium carbonate is to cultivate glasswort or saltwort or barilla plants. Many sites where maritime saltwort occurs are subject to severe tropical storms. The species was considered to be a "saltwort" plant. In the north, desert and semi-desert vegetation is noted, including sagebrush, saltwort and feather-grass. Saltwort, ephedra, and desert bushes characterize these landscapes in China (Smith and Xie 2008). Succulent marsh contains saltwort, annual glasswort, perennial glasswort, sea blight, and shoreline seapurslane. The genus "Salsola" is also sometimes known as saltwort, but is unrelated.