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Tamarix parviflora
Also called Small Flower Tamarisk, Small Flowered Tamarix, Tamarisk, Salt Cedar, Small Flowered Tamarisk, Tamarix, Saltcedar
Smallflower tamarisk is a shrub or small tree up to about 5 m tall, native to south-eastern Europe and Turkey, that thrives in moist, saline soils. It is best grown in full sun with deep watering and good drainage, and it is invasive in parts of western North America.
Tamarix parviflora is a species of tamarisk known by the common name smallflower tamarisk.
It is native to south-eastern Europe (Albania, East Aegean Islands, Greece, Crete and the former Yugoslavia) and to Turkey. It has been introduced elsewhere, in places such as; Algeria, Austria, Cape Provinces, Corsica, Italy, Libya, Mexico, Pakistan, Sicily, Spain, West Himalayas and western North America (Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon and Texas), where it is an invasive introduced species.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tamarix parviflora 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.
