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Shriveled salt lake bottom in summer with single individuals of Triglochin maritima [common arrowgrass]. eastern Alberta, CA.
Halerpestes cymbalaria - Alkali Buttercup in salt affected grasslands of eastern Alberta, Canada.
Amphiscirpus nevadensis - Nevada Bulrush at the edge of a salty lake, eastern Alberta, Canada.
Triglochin maritima - Common Arrowgrass at the edge of a salt lake in eastern Alberta, Canada.
Bolboschoenus maritimus - Sea Clubrush, AB, Canada.
Triglochin maritima - Common Arrowgrass at a meadow in Holden, Alberta, Canada.
Trifolium fragiferum [Strawberry clover], a typical species of the wet subsaline meadows. RO, Europe
cracked soil in dry saline pastures, RO, Europe.
Hordeum geniculatum
Basal leafs of Limonium gmelinii in saline dry grasslands, RO, Europe.
Small plants of Triglochin maritima with flower buds in dry, saline pastures, RO, Europe.
Hypersaline patches dominated by Salicornia on cracking soil in summer, RO, Europe.
Hypersaline patches on cracking soil in summer, RO, Europe.
Plantago schwarzenbergiana on wet, saline soils near Turda, RO, Europe.
Patches with Salicornia, Puccinellia and Limonium within a shallow ditch filled with saline water. RO, Europe.
Patterns of wet-hypersaline to dry subsaline plant communities in Turda, RO, Europe.
Juncus gerardi, Scorzonera cana and Bupleurum tenuissimum often co-occur in saline pastures, RO, Europe.
Artemisia santonicum growing in narrow strips at the step banks of saline valley bottoms flooded in spring and drying out during summer. RO, Europe.
Spergularia growing on the cracked soil of saline valley bottoms flooded in spring and drying out during summer. RO, Europe.
Dryed out saline valley bottom in the middle of pastures utilized by farmers, RO, Europe.
Crypsis schoenoides [Swamp Pricklegrass]
Salicornia perennans growing at the edge of dried up, shallow channels of salt-affected sites in Romania.
Diverse landscape forms lead to a diverse, more or less small scaled vegetation pattern within salt-affected sites.
Dried up channel transporting salty water from the salt brine into the grasslands of a remote valley in Romania.
Eryngium planum [Blue Eryngo], a rare plant in brackish grasslands.
Bolboschoenus maritimus [Sea clubrush] stand in the inundated, brackish sites of a salt -grassland dominated valley in Romania.
Lactuca saligna [Willowleaf Lettuce]
Zonation with Salicornia perennans followed upwards by Puccinellia distans and Limonium gmelinii dominated vegetation. Romania
Camptopoeum friesei, a bee breeding in the cracks of hypersaline soils. Romania.
Camptopoeum friesei, a bee breeding in the cracks of hypersaline soils. Romania.
Peucedanum officinale [Hog`s fennel] stands with interspersed Limonium gmelinii [Siberian Statice].
Open structure vegetation with Festuca pseudovina grasslands, domminated by Plantago maritima. Elevated, slightly eroded sites are covered by Camphorosma annua. Romania
Elevated, slightly eroded sites within Festuca pseudovina grasslands are covered by Camphorosma annua. Romania
Elevated, slightly eroded sites within Festuca pseudovina grasslands are covered by Camphorosma annua. Romania
Myosurus minimus is typically found in furrows, ditches and disturbed, slightly subjacent sites within Festuca pseudovina grasslands. Romania
Plantago maritima meadow, Serbia.
Camphorosma annua - Lepidium cartilagineum dominated community within salt-affected grasslands, Serbia.
Sheep grazing led by shepherds is typically seen on Festuca pseudovina grasslands. Serbia.
Camphorosma annua typically forms communities on slightly exposed and eroding spots surrounded by Festuca pseudovina grasslands. Romania.
Lotus tenuis flowering on a dried up lake bottom in summer, Fertő-Hanság NP, Hungary.
Trifolium fragiferum-Lotus tenuis meadow meadow in Hungary.
Puccinellia distans agg. meadows with a late summer flowering aspect of Limonium gmelinii. Hungary.
Puccinellia distans agg. meadows with a late summer flowering aspect of Limonium gmelinii. Hungary.
Puccinellia distans agg. meadows with a late summer flowering aspect of Limonium gmelinii. Hungary.
Top soil within Puccinellia distans agg. - Tripolium pannonicum ssp. pannonicum stands in late summer.
Suaeda pannonica with creeping branches here covering an open saline spot in tractor driving lanes.
Crypsis aculeata [Sharp-leaved Grass]
Camphorosma annua community with Puccinellia distans agg. . Hungary
Lepidium cartilagineum and Camphorosma annua.
Bolboschoenus maritimus agg. [Sea Clubrush] and Salsola soda [Fleshy Russian Thistle] growing at the edge of a dried up lake shore in Hungary.
Lepidium cartilagineum - Camphorosma annua community growing in an old driving lane within salt-affected grasslands.
Lepidium cartilagineum forms communities in hypersaline spots eg. growing together with Camphorosma annua and/or Suaeda pannonica. Hungary
Lepidium cartilagineum here growing between Puccinellia distans agg swards and an open-, ypersaline spot.
Limonium gmelinii dominates the late summer aspect of saline grasslands in eastern Hungary.
Plantago tenuiflora as a spring aspect of Hungarian saline grasslands in summer can be only found in a very dry state.
Crypsis aculeata in a disturbed spot within Puccinellia distans agg. swards. Hungary.
Artemisia santonicum dominated community alterating with dominant occurrence of Peucedanum officinale.
Artemisia santonicum domminated, species poor community on salt-affected soil.
In Lepidium cartilagineum communities, Nostoc can occur in various abundances.
Lepidium cartilagineum
Crypsis aculeata (round inflorescence half buried withn the upper leafs) and C. schoenoides (more oval, longer inflorescence) growing along the shore of a salt lake, Hungary.
Lepidium cartilagineum growing on a little island within a flooded ditch within the salt-affected grassland.
Lepidium cartilagineum, usually flowering in early summer, sometimes is flowering also in autumn. That way it occurs as white spots within the otherwise violett flowers of Tripolium pannonicum (background).
Artemisia santonicum (right) and Suaeda pannonica dominated vegetation patterns occur intermingelt on salt-affected sites.
Salicornia perennans in flower.
Suaeda prostrata at Neusiedl area, Austria.
Flower buds of Artemisia santonicum, one of the typical plants occurring in pannonian inland salt grasslands.
Flowering aspect of Chenopodium chenopodioides [Low Goosefoot] and Tripolium pannonicum [Sea Aster] in autumn at Neusiedel area, Austria.
Tripolium pannonicum forms a few decimeter high layer within the approximately 2 meters high Phragmites australis stand along the shore of a dreid up salt lake in Neusiedel area, Austria.
Flower of Salsola kali [Saltwort].
Tripolium pannonicum [Sea Aster] and Suaeda pannonica show their typical autumn-color range.
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The role of salt composition
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