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Allenrolfea occidentalis
Also called Burroweed, Iodine bush, California greasewood, Pickleweed
Iodinebush is a fleshy, jointed desert shrub of salty, alkaline flats and dry lakebeds in the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Give it full sun, very little water, and salty, sandy soil.
Allenrolfea occidentalis, the iodine bush, is a low-lying shrub of the Southwestern United States, California, Idaho, and northern Mexico.
It grows in sandy, often salty, distinctly alkaline soils, such as desert washes and saline dry lakebeds. It is a common halophyte member of the alkali flat ecosystem.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allenrolfea occidentalis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
