Athel tamarisk
Athel tree
Athel pine
saltcedar
tamarix aphylla latin

The species has a variety of common names, including Athel pine, Athel tree, Athel tamarisk, and saltcedar.

The species has a variety of common names, including Athel pine, Athel tree, Athel tamarisk, and saltcedar.

The Athel tree is commonly used for windbreaks on the edge of agricultural fields and as a shade tree in the deserts of the Southwestern United States.

Evergreen species Tamarix aphylla (Athel tree), a large evergreen tree, does not sexually reproduce in the local climate and is not considered a seriously invasive species.

However, the saltcedar is similar in that it also provides little usable habitat for native animals.

Lists general information and resources for Saltcedar.

The saltcedar is another invasive large weed that also, like the giant reed, uses large amounts of water.

Western tanagers have also been observed in saltcedar (Tamarix spp.)

Cottonwoods were found to be competitively superior to saltcedar when flooding allowed seeds of both species to cogerminate.

Unlike giant reed, the saltcedar has deeper roots, not only making it more difficult to remove but allowing it to access and use up deep groundwater.

However, the lack of flooding caused by altered hydrology creates more favorable conditions for the germination of saltcedar over cottonwoods.

Honey mesquite, catclaw acacia, and saltcedar are common in washes in the central and eastern portions of the Wilderness.

It is used in North America as a biological pest control agent against saltcedar or tamarisk (Tamarix spp.)

Tamarix ramosissima, commonly known as Saltcedar, is a deciduous arching shrub with reddish stems and feathery, pale green foliage.

Tamarix chinensis is a species of tamarisk known by the common names Chinese tamarisk and five-stamen tamarisk or saltcedar.

Species Profile- Saltcedar (Tamarix spp.)

This modification has been implicated in the dominance of saltcedar (Tamarix chinensis) over the native cottonwood (Populus deltoids).

The species has a variety of common names, including Athel pine, Athel tree, Athel tamarisk, and saltcedar.

Coyote willow, arrowweed, seep-willow, western honey mesquite, catclaw acacia, and exotic tamarisk (saltcedar) are the predominant species.

Texas Agri-Life Extension Leaflet; Biological Control of Saltcedar (regards use of other tamarisk beetle species).

Texas Agri-Life Extension Leaflet; Biological Control of Saltcedar (Tunisia source population, not mentioned, is D. sublineata).

Here the invasive Eurasian tamarisk, also known as saltcedar, threatens native plants by crowding, using most of the available water, and increasing soil salinity by exuding salt through its leaves.

CISR - Saltcedar Center for Invasive Species Research summary on Saltcedar.

To remove giant reed at the end of crop cycle, there are mainly two methods, mechanical or chemical Jackson 1998 Chemical control of giant reed (Arundo donax) and saltcedar (Tamarix ramosissima).

Texas Agri-Life Research and Extension Program; Biological Control of Saltcedar: Using Natural Enemies to Combat an Invasive Weed Competing with Texas' Water Resources (regards use of other tamarisk beetle species).

USDA/ARS and Texas Agri-Life Research and Extension Service Report of Information to the Public; Progress on Biological Control of Saltcedar in the Western U.S.: Emphasis-Texas 2004-2009.

Other threats and potential threats include trampling by mustangs, cattle grazing, mining for clay minerals such as bentonite, sepiolite, and saponite, and introduced plant species such as yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) and saltcedar (Tamarix ramosissima).

The objectives of the ambitious restoration project are to control exotic plants, particularly the phreatophyte Saltcedar - Tamarix (primarily Tamarix ramosissima and T. parviflora), and restoring critical desert California native plant community "structural elements" for a functioning flora and fauna habitat.

Studies have also shown that decreases in groundwater levels may favor the invasion and persistence of certain exotic invasive species such as Saltcedar (Tamarix chinensis), which do not appear to show the same degree of physiologic water stress as native species when subjected to lower groundwater levels.

The largest, Tamarix aphylla, is an evergreen tree that can grow to 18 m tall.

The larvae feed on Tamarix aphylla.

Downstream, where the current of the enneris is slower and the riverbed is deeper, there are dense thickets of Tamarix aphylla and Salvadora persica (locally known as yii).