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Answer for the clue "Salt-marsh plant ", 12 letters:
sea lavender

Word definitions for sea lavender in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of whit or mauve flowers [syn: marsh rosemary , statice ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A plant in the genus ''Limonium''.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marsh \Marsh\, n. [OE. mersch, AS. mersc, fr. mere lake. See Mere pool, and cf. Marish , Morass .] A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass. [Written also marish .] Marsh asphodel (Bot.), a plant ...

Usage examples of sea lavender.

Among the plants were the pointed, brittle fingers of cacti and the menace of skeleton thorn trees, with only the darker sheen of lignum vitae and sea lavender to break the salty sweep.