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Short Leaf Anabasis

Anabasis brevifolia

Short Leaf Anabasis
Photo: Carl Anton von Meyer (1795-1855), Public domain
Family
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth & beet family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Siberia to NW. & N. China
Climate
temperate

About

Anabasis brevifolia, also known as short-leaf anabasis, (Chinese: 短叶假木贼) is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is found from the southern West Siberian Plain, across Central Asia to northern China. Together with wormwood, Anabasis brevifolia is an important forage plant in areas of Mongolia and the Kazakh steppe.

Other Anabasis plants

Leafless Anabasis · Anabasis articulata · Eugenia's Anabasis · Anabasis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anabasis brevifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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