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§1 Plant
Salsola tragus L.
vernacular prickly Russian thistle — species · Chenopodiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Chenopodiaceae Vent.
- Genus
- Salsola
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 151 counties across 12 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 151 counties across 12 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 51 I ▾
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Broadwater 30007
- Carbon 30009
- Carter 30011
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Custer 30017
- Daniels 30019
- Dawson 30021
- Fallon 30025
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Golden Valley 30037
- Granite 30039
- Hill 30041
- Jefferson 30043
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Meagher 30059
- Mineral 30061
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Pondera 30073
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Prairie 30079
- Ravalli 30081
- Richland 30083
- Roosevelt 30085
- Rosebud 30087
- Sanders 30089
- Sheridan 30091
- Silver Bow 30093
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Treasure 30103
- Valley 30105
- Wheatland 30107
- Yellowstone 30111
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 30 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chautauqua 36013
- Chemung 36015
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Erie 36029
- Genesee 36037
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Livingston 36051
- Monroe 36055
- Montgomery 36057
- Nassau 36059
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Seneca 36099
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Westchester 36119
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 20 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 6 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 5 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SATR12 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3083945 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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