salt cedar
nounEtymology So named because they tend to grow on saline soils.
1
The tamarisk, a plant of genus Tamarix.
2
Tamarix ramosissima, an tamarisk plant native to Eurasia, considered invasive in the Southwest United States.
- Until recently, a visit to the Colorado River’s delta, below Morelos Dam, would be met with a mostly dry barren desert sprinkled with salt cedar and other undesirable invasive plant species. Today, that arid landscape is broken up with large areas of healthy riparian habitat filled with cottonwood, willow, and mesquite trees.2022 October 27, Julia Morton, “Restoration Efforts in the Colorado River Delta are Working”, in Audubon: