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§1 Plant
Salsola collina Pall.
vernacular slender 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
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 69 counties across 19 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 69 counties across 19 states/territories.
Colorado view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 4 I ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 2 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SACO8 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3083953 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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