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Tamarix ramosissima
⚠️ PROHIBITED NOXIOUS — also called Tamarisk. A tall shrub or small tree (2–8 m) from Eurasia with scale-like cedar-resembling leaves and plumes of tiny pink flowers. Extraordinary water-pump — a single mature plant can transpire over 700 L of water per day, drying up springs and streams. Concentrates salt on leaf surfaces which drops to poison soil. A catastrophe across the American southwest; monitoring intense in Alberta.
Quick Facts
Distribution
Scattered in southern Alberta river valleys; report sightings
Light
Full sun
Bloom Time
June–Aug
Soil
Adaptable — thrives in saline, alkaline soils others can't handle
Water
Low to high — grows in both drought and wet
Growing & Cultivation
Propagation
DO NOT PROPAGATE. Control: cut-stump herbicide treatment; biological control beetles being evaluated.
