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Maltese Salt-tree

Salsola melitensis

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) mcaruanagalizia, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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Easily confused with

Shrubby SeabliteSuaeda vera

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Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	pinks, cactuses, and allies · Caryophyllales
Family	Amaranth family · Amaranthaceae
Genus	Russian Thistles · Salsola

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
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