Salsola collina

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tumbleweed

Salsola collina Pall.

• Occurrence in Alberta – Y
• Global Invasive Species Database –
• NatureServe Rank –
• Haber, Upland –
• Haber, Wetland –
• CWF, Status & Invasive Range –
• Alberta Revegetation Guidelines – N
• The Nature Conservancy –
• CBCN –
• AB Weed – N

Remarks

First reported in Alberta in Dinosaur Provincial Park in 2011, tumbleweed is a drought resistant, salt-tolerant spring annual that is native to Siberia, Korea, Northern and Northeastern China, and Mongolia. It was first collected in the US (in Kansas) in 1923 but misidentified, and first reported in 1938, in Minnesota.

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References

Interactive Agricultural Ecological Atlas of Russia and Neighboring Countries. Economic Plants and their Diseases, Pests and Weeds [1]

Encyclopedia of Life, comprehensive description and comments [2]

USDA Plants Database [3]

US Forest Service Fact Sheet [4]

California Department of Food and Agriculture facts about the genus Salsola [5]

Map references

sample: Map data for T. ramosissima