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  • COMMON NAME: foetid saltwort
  • ARABIC: فريط، خريط
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Salsola imbricata Forssk.
  • SYNONYMS: Chenopodium baryosmon, Salsola baryosma, Salsola foetida.
  • FAMILY: AMARANTHACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs Succulent
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual Perennial
  • REMARKS: Young leaves have unpleasant smell when crushed. This plant is one of the first plants to colonize coastal landfills.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/salsola_imbricata.htm M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.

Low shrub, sometimes annual herb up to 60 cm high, yellowish-green, succulent, glaucous, glabrous or not. Stems erect or ascending, with many red divaricately branched from the base. Leaves hairy, variable 4-20 mm long and 1-3 mm wide, minute, alternate, fleshy densely clustered or absent on flowering branches. Flowers solitary, axillary arranged in short, dense spikes 1-2.5 cm long and 0.4-1 cm in diameter. Bracts 1-2 mm long, imbricated, perianth 5 segments, short, ovate-triangular, obtuse, connivent with obovate, white wings 4-6 mm in diameter. 

Flowering from August to December.
sandy and gravelly soil, as well as rocky places.
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