Haloxylon salicornicum(Moq.) Bunge ex Boiss.

WFO wfo-0000715245 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Haloxylon salicornicum, photographed by pavlaki1968
fig. a pavlaki1968, CC BY 4.0 / 2013-03-16 / obs. 183252783
Haloxylon salicornicum, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. b Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108685634
Haloxylon salicornicum, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. c Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64196281
Haloxylon salicornicum, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. d Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108685639
Haloxylon salicornicum, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. e Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64196289
Haloxylon salicornicum, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. f Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108685643
Haloxylon salicornicum, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. g Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108685648

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Haloxylon salicornicum is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, India, Pakistan AlgeriaEgyptLibyaAfghanistanGulf StatesIranIraqKuwaitLebanon-SyriaOmanPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiIndiaPakistan
Native distribution of Haloxylon salicornicum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Gulf States GST
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kuwait KUW
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Oman OMA
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Pakistan PAK

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 82 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 4.1 °C 12.7 °C 16.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 34.2 °C 41.0 °C 43.5 °C
Annual rainfall 36 mm 128 mm 205 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 0 mm 2 mm 9 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 82 research-grade observations of Haloxylon salicornicum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Arthrophytum articulatum (Moq.) Iljin
  • Caroxylon articulatum Moq.
  • Caroxylon salicornicum Moq.
  • Haloxylon articulatum (Moq.) Bunge
  • Haloxylon elegans Bunge
  • Haloxylon schweinfurthii Asch. & Schweinf.
  • Hammada articulata (Moq.) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Hammada elegans (Bunge) Botsch.
  • Hammada hispanica Botsch.
  • Hammada salicornica (Moq.) Iljin
  • Salsola articulata Cav.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.