Salsola kali: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
- Genus
- Salsola
- Species
- Salsola kali
- Scientific Name
- Salsola kali
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Kali turgidum
Salsola kali is the restored botanical name for a species of flowering plants in the amaranth family that has been treated as Kali turgidum. It is native to Macaronesia, and from the Atlantic coasts of Europe to the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean (although it has been introduced elsewhere). It is an annual plant which grows primarily in the temperate biome, in salty sandy coastal soils. It is commonly known as prickly saltwort or prickly glasswort.
In dry inland places it is replaced by Salsola tragus (syn. Kali tragus or Salsola kali subsp. tragus), which is less tolerant to salty soils, and has spread more widely from Eurasia to other continents. Salsola kali is less widespread as an introduced species in America.
...Salsola kali in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Rolbossie
- Afrikaans
- kakiedissel
- Afrikaans
- Rolbos
- Afrikaans
- Russiese rolbossie
- Afrikaans
- Trekbos
- Afrikaans
- waaibos
- Arabic
- روثا شائكة
- Bokmål
- sodaurt
- Catalan
- barrella punxosa
- Czech
- slanobýl draselný
- Danish
- Sodaurt
- Dutch
- Stekend loogkruid
- English
- saltwort
- English
- Russian Tumbleweed
- English
- Classwort
- English
- Prickly Glasswort
- English
- Rush-And-Tumble Weed
- English
- Rush-And-Tumbleweed
- English
- Russion Thistle
- Estonian
- rand-ogamalts
- Finnish
- meriotakilokki
- French
- Soude brûlée
- Galician
- Barrilleira
- German
- Kali-Salzkraut
- Hebrew
- מלחית אשלגנית
- Hungarian
- Homoki ballagófű
- Lithuanian
- Smiltyninė druskė
- Polish
- Solanka kolczysta
- Portuguese
- barrilha-espinhosa
- Portuguese
- barrilheira-espinhosa
- Portuguese
- soda-espinhosa
- Russian
- Солянка калийная
- Slovene
- navadna solinka
- Swedish
- sodaört
- Ukrainian
- Курай поташевий
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Salsola acanthoclada
- Salsola arbuscula
- Salsola arbusculiformis
- Salsola australis
- Salsola collina
- Salsola crassa
- Salsola cyclophylla
- Salsola daghestanica
- Salsola dendroides
- Salsola divaricata
- Salsola drummondii
- Salsola foliosa
- Salsola gaetula
- Salsola gemmascens
- Salsola genistoides
- Salsola gobicola
- Salsola grandis
- Salsola gymnomaschala
- Salsola halimocnemis
- Salsola incanescens
- Salsola inermis
- Salsola jacquemontii
- Salsola jordanicola
- Salsola kali
- Salsola komarovii
- Salsola laricifolia
- Salsola longifolia
- Salsola masclansii
- Salsola melitensis
- Salsola montana
- Salsola nitraria
- Salsola oppositifolia
- Salsola orientalis
- Salsola papillosa
- Salsola passerina
- Salsola paulsenii
- Salsola pontica
- Salsola richteri
- Salsola rosacea
- Salsola ryanii
- Salsola schweinfurthii
- Salsola soda
- Salsola spicata
- Salsola squarrosa
- Salsola tamamschjanae
- Salsola tamariscina
- Salsola tragus
- Salsola turcica
- Salsola verticillata
- Salsola webbii
- Salsola zygophylla