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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Ambrosia salsola
|accepted_authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) Strother & B. G. Baldwin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Madroño
|place=49: 143. 2002
|year=2002
}}
|common_names=Burrobush
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Hymenoclea salsola
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|publication_place=4: 79. 1849
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ambrosiinae;Ambrosia;Ambrosia salsola
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ambrosiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ambrosia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ambrosia salsola]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 10
|treatment_page=page 12
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 20–80(–150+) cm. <b>Stems</b> erect. <b>Leaves</b> mostly alternate; petioles 0; blades mostly filiform, 15–35(–65+) × 0.5–1.5 mm, sometimes with 3(–5+) filiform lobes, abaxial faces sparsely scabrellous, glabrescent, often vernicose, adaxial faces densely scabrellous (white). <b>Pistillate</b> heads ± intermixed with staminates; florets 1. <b>Staminate</b> heads: peduncles 0–0.5 mm; involucres ± cup-shaped, 1–3(–4) mm diam., ± glabrate, ± vernicose or gland-dotted; florets 5–15+. <b>Burs</b>: bodies plumply fusiform, 3–4(–6) mm, stipitate-glandular, wings 5–20+, ± scattered, broadly cuneiform, flabellate, or orbiculate, 3–4(–6) × 2–4(–8) mm. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–May(–Jun).
|habitat=Desert washes, sandy and gravelly benches, lava talus
|elevation=200–1800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|discussion=<p>Variety salsola refers to plants bearing burs with 6–14 wings in 2–3+ cycles, their tips ± spreading to patent; var. pentalepis (Rydberg) Strother & B. G. Baldwin refers to plants bearing burs with 5–9(–13) wings in 1(–2) cycles, their tips ± spreading to patent; <i></i>var.<i> fasciculata</i> (A. Nelson) Strother & B. G. Baldwin [= Hymenoclea salsola var. patula (A. Nelson) K. M. Peterson & W. W. Payne, an illegitimate name] refers to plants bearing burs with 10–18 wings in 2–3+ cycles, their tips antrorsely ± appressed (see K. M. Peterson and W. W. Payne 1973).</p><!--
--><p>Hybrids between <i>Ambrosia salsola</i> and <i>A. dumosa</i> have been called A. ×platyspina (Seaman) Strother & B. G. Baldwin.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Ambrosia salsola
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) Strother & B. G. Baldwin
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Hymenoclea salsola
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–May(–Jun).
|habitat=Desert washes, sandy and gravelly benches, lava talus
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|elevation=200–1800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Madroño
|publication year=2002
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ambrosiinae
|genus=Ambrosia
|species=Ambrosia salsola
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