Species of flowering plant
| Ambrosia salsola
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom:
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Plantae
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| Clade:
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Tracheophytes
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| Clade:
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Angiosperms
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| Clade:
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Eudicots
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| Clade:
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Asterids
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| Order:
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Asterales
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| Family:
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Asteraceae
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| Genus:
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Ambrosia
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| Species:
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A. salsola
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| Binomial name
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Ambrosia salsola
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| Synonyms[1][2]
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- Ambrosia salsola var. fasciculata (A.Nelson) Strother & B.G.Baldwin
- Ambrosia salsola var. pentalepis (Rydb.) Strother & B.G.Baldwin
- Hymenoclea fasciculata A.Nelson
- Hymenoclea pentalepis Rydb.
- Hymenoclea salsola'' Torr. & A. Gray
- Hymenoclea salsola var. fasciculata (Nelson) K.M.Peterson & W.W.Payne
- Hymenoclea salsola var. patula (A.Nelson) K.M.Peterson & W.W.Payne
- Hymenoclea salsola var. pentalepis (Rydb.) L.D.Benson
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Ambrosia salsola,[3] commonly called cheesebush, winged ragweed, burrobush,[4] white burrobrush,[citation needed] and desert pearl,[citation needed] is a species of perennial shrub in the family Asteraceae native to deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.[5]
This species, notable for its foul smell, easily hybridizes with the white bur-sage (Ambrosia dumosa).[5]
- ^ Tropicos
- ^ The Plant List
- ^ Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p. 314
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ a b Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p. 263
