Amaranthaceae FAMILY

Camphorosma monspeliaca

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Camphorosma monspeliaca is an evergreen plant, forming a dense mat of overwintering, short, more or less woody stems at the soil surface. Each spring, numerous, ascending to erect annual stems that are branched above arise from this mat of woody stems and grow 10 - 50cm tall[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. , 1145 Title AgroAtlas Publication Author Website http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line database of economic plants of Russia and the surrounding countries that formed the USSR, giving botanical descriptions, distribution, habitats and uses. It also gives comprehensive information on climate, soil, pests, diseases etc ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeEurasia - from southeastern Europe through southwestern and central Asia to southwestern Siberia, Mongolia and western China

HabitatSaline soils and dry waste places, north to latitude 53°north in eastern central Russia[ 50 Title Flora Europaea Publication Author ? Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1964 ISBN - Description An immense work in 6 volumes (including the index). The standard reference flora for Europe, it is very terse though and with very little extra information. Not for the casual reader. ]. Gobi desert, deserts, arid slopes, dunes, wastelands[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ].