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§1 Plant

Salsola collina Pall.

vernacular slender Russian thistle — species · Chenopodiaceae


USDA
SACO8
GBIF
3083953
Rank
species
slender Russian thistle (Salsola collina)
Platephotograph · no rights reservedCC0 · public domain source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Chenopodiaceae Vent.
Genus
Salsola
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 69 counties across 19 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 69 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 6 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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