Pickle weed:

Scientific name: Salicornia virginica

Pickle weed gets its name from its small pickle-appearance and its salty taste. The weed is part of a species called halophytes. Halophytes are plants that have adapted to salt water life. They are able to grow in areas that have brackish water. Brackish water is salt water and river or lake water mixed. It is part of that species of plants. It is a gray-green plant whose stems look like a series of slender pickles. Salt crystals can be seen forming on the outside of the plant. Humans can eat Pickle weed but it is very salty. Pickle weed got the name Pickle weed because it looks like a pickle.

What eats it? The salt marsh harvest mouse both eats it and lives in it.

Where do you find Pickle weed? You can find it in the Suisun Marsh wherever brackish water is

What does it look like? It is grayish-green plant that looks like it has little pickles strung on wires. Sometimes it is other colors, such as orange or pinkish.