Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Frankeniaceae
Genus:Frankenia
EditorBektemir Osmonali & Rilke
Scientific name: Frankenia hirsuta L.
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Description:Semi-shrub, strongly branched, 35-40 cm tall. with numerous extended branches, ascending or straight, knotty, rarely bare almost always weakly or densely covered with short, white, unicellular, hard, straight hairs; leaves linear or oblong linear, 3-8 mm long., 0.5—4 mm wide., insular, with the edges of the inverted, covered on the lower side with sparse or thick, short, white hairs, narrowed at the base in a small, 0.5—1 mm long.
Tax. Comments:leaves whorled, flowers pink
Habitat:Coastal salt marshes and salt marshes, wet and plump salt marshes, salt deserts and rocky steppes.