page_title: Crithmum
hierarchical_section_title: Crithmum
caption_attribution_description: English: Rock samphire, Crithmum maritimum. This photograph was taken on 2008-08-01 near the port of Bilbao in the Bizkaia province of the Basque Country (Europe), using a Canon PowerShot S50 camera.The original size was 2592x1944 pixels, it was reduced to the present size (1296x972 pixels) using the IrfanView freeware program. Euskara: Itsas mihilu, Crithmum maritimum. Argazki hau 2008-08-01an hartu zen Bilboko portuaren hur, Bizkaian.
context_page_description: Crithmum is a monospecific genus of flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, with the sole species Crithmum maritimum, known as rock samphire, sea fennel or samphire. The name "samphire" is also used for several other unrelated succulent halophyte species of coastal plant.
  Sea fennel, or 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 and in the Canary Islands, North Africa and on the coast of the Black Sea.
context_section_description: Crithmum is a monospecific  genus of flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, with the sole species Crithmum maritimum, known as  rock samphire,, sea fennel or samphire. The name "samphire" is also used for several other unrelated succulent halophyte species of coastal plant.
  Sea fennel, or 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 and in the Canary Islands, North Africa and on the coast of the Black Sea.
caption: Crithmum maritimum (habitat)
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