Salsola hyssopifolia Pall., Reise. 1: 491, tab. H. 1771; Kochia hyssopifolia (Pall.) Roth, Neue Beitr. 176. 1802; Suaeda hyssopifolia (Pall.) Pall., Illustr; Pl. 44. 1803; Echinopsilon hyssopifolium (Pall.) Moq., Chenopod. Monogr. 87. 1840; Iljin in Kom., FI. URSS 6: 97. 1936.

Annual, 10-60 cm high, branched, grayish-hairy, mostly turning black on drying; stem covered with densely tangled crisp hairs. Leaves linear, fleshy, semi-terete, sessile or scarcely narrowing at base. Inflorescence spiciform. Flowers mostly 2-3 together, perianth segments densely hairy, in fruit with 5 outgrowths, these straight or somewhat curved at the tips, varying in length, acute, enlarged at base; seeds naked, smooth, ovate, 2.0-2.5 mm long.

Fl. Per.: June-August.

Type: “In campis siccis atque salsis ad Rhymnum, infra fortalitum a Calmaccis dictum” (Ural river below Kalmykovskoe-sec. FI. URSS 6: 97. 1936).

Distribution: E. Europe, Ethiopia and Asia.