John Shaw / Abandoned house in middle of a wheat field. Palouse farming area, south eastern Washington, USA, August.

Ernie Janes / Sugar beet crop in August wilting in summer drought, Norfolk, August 2013.

Ernie Janes / Field Poppies Pavaver rhoea and Sugar beet crop in Norfolk Field UK July

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common glasswort (Salicornia europaea) growing on regenerated saltmarsh habitat, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK, July

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common glasswort (Salicornia europaea) growing on regenerated saltmarsh habitat, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK, July 2011

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common sea lavender (Limonium vulgare) and Common glasswort (Salicornia europaea) on saltmarsh, Abbotts Hall Farm Nature Reserve, Essex, England, UK

Wild Wonders of Europe / Benvie / Broomrape (Cistanche phelypaea) in flower, killing its host Glasswort (Salicornia sp) Huelva, Andalucia, Spain, April 2009

Linda Pitkin / Many-seeded goosefoot (Chenopodium polyspermum), an arable plant in a field, Langley Vale Wood, Surrey, England, August.

Linda Pitkin / Many-seeded goosefoot (Chenopodium polyspermum), an arable plant in a field, Langley Vale Wood, Surrey, England, August.

Linda Pitkin / Fat-hen plant (Chenopodium album), growing wild in an allotment. Great Bookham, Surrey, England, August.

Linda Pitkin / Spear-leaved orache (Atriplex prostrata), Kent & Surrey Golf Course, west of Edenbridge, Kent, England, August.

Linda Pitkin / Spear-leaved Orache (Atriplex prostrata), Kent & Surrey Golf Course, west of Edenbridge, Kent, England, August 2015.

Philippe Clement / Good-King-Henry / Poor-man's Asparagus (Blitum bonus-henricus) in flower, native to Europe. May

Nigel Cattlin / Sea beet (Beta vulgaris). Chesil Beach, Dorset, England, UK. May.

Nigel Cattlin / Sea beet (Beta vulgaris) coming into flower on shingle of Chesil Beach, Dorset, England, UK. May.

Nigel Cattlin / Fat-hen (Chenopodium album) seedling with cotyledons and four true leaves, annual arable weed.

Nigel Cattlin / Fat hen (Chenopodium album) growing as weed, about to flower. Berkshire, England, UK. July .

Nigel Cattlin / Flat backed millepede (Polydesmus angustus) damage to young Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris). Damaged tap root in comparison to normal undamaged tap root. England, UK.

Nigel Cattlin / Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) seedling with root damage caused by Garden symphylan (Scutigerella immaculata), a soil pest. England, UK.

Steven David Miller / Mulla mulla (Ptilotus sp) at base of Uluru / Ayers Rock. Uluru-kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. 2014.

Ernie Janes / Close up of a Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris) leaf.

Pascal Tordeux / RF- Farm track running between fields of harvested wheat and sugarbeet, Villers Le Sec, Picardy, France, July 2018. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)

Will Watson / Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) growing in a game bird cover crop, Herefordshire Plateau, England, September.

Lynn M. Stone / English Springer Spaniel in salt marsh with red Glasswort, Connecticut, USA. October.

Lynn M. Stone / English Setter in salt marsh with red Glasswort, Connecticut, USA. October.

Lynn M. Stone / Glasswort (Salicornia sp.) in autumn red, growing in salt marsh pannes adjacent to Long Island Sound, Connecticut, USA. October.

Lynn M. Stone / Glasswort (Salicornia sp.) in autumn red, growing in salt marsh adjacent to Long Island Sound, Connecticut, USA. October.

David Tipling / Samphire (Salicornia sp) on saltmarsh. Holkham National Nature Reserve, North Norfolk, England, UK. October.

David Tipling / Samphire (Salicornia sp) in saltmarsh. Holkham National Nature Reserve, North Norfolk, England, UK. October.

Matthew Maran / Sea beet (Beta vulgaris sp.maritima) a common plant found in coastal cliff vegetation, Devon, England, UK, November.

Nick Upton / Glaucous glasswort (Arthrocnemum macrostachyum) bushes partly submerged by a high tide in a coastal lagoon, Sotavento, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, May.

Nick Upton / Glaucous glasswort (Arthrocnemum macrostachyum) bushes partly submerged by a high tide in a coastal lagoon, Sotavento, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, May.

Mike Read / Sardinian warbler (Sylvia melanocephala) perched in Glasswort (Salicornia europaea) Ria Formosa Nature Reserve, Algarve, Portugal, February.

Ernie Janes / Love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus) in flower in garden. England, UK.

Klein & Hubert / Beetroot (Beta vulgaris vulgaris) growing in a kitchen garden, Germany.

Martin Gabriel / Yellow broomrape (Cistanche phelypaea), a plant parasiting on Atriplex, flowering, Sultanate of Oman, January.

David Tipling / Marsh samphire / Glasswort (Salicornia europaea) on salt marsh in autumn, Stiffkey marshes, North Norfolk, UK October

David Tipling / Marsh samphire / Glasswort (Salicornia europaea) on salt marsh at Stiffkey marshes, North Norfolk, UK October

Pascal Tordeux / Farmland fields ploughed and planted with sugar beet seedlings, Villers Le Sec, France, April 2016.

Pascal Tordeux / Fields ploughed with sugar beet seedlings, Villers Le Sec, France, April 2016.

Klein & Hubert / Chard leaves (Beta vulgaris) in autumn, Germany.

Klein & Hubert / White and Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris) in autumn, Germany.

Nick Upton / Mediterranean saltwort (Salsola vermiculata) growing on a cliff edge, Ponta de Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, July 2013.

Nick Upton / Spear-leaved orache (Atriplex prostrata) flowering high on a sandy beach, near Bude, Cornwall, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Spear-leaved orache (Atriplex prostrata) and Sea rocket (Cakile maritima) clumps flowering high on a beach, near Bude, Cornwall, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Spear-leaved orache (Atriplex prostrata) and Sea rocket (Cakile maritima) clumps flowering high on a sandy beach, near Bude, Cornwall, UK, September.

Gary K. Smith / Wooden trug and hand fork with Beetroot 'Pablo' (Beta vulgaris), Norfolk, England UK. July

Gary K. Smith / Rows of summer vegetables including Beetroot (Beta vulgaris) with brassicas and carrots covered in mesh tunnel cloches to prevent carrot fly and cabbage white butterfly, Norfolk, England UK. July