A genus of desert plants known for accumulating high levels of salt in their tissues, found in arid regions.
From 'halo-' (salt) + Greek 'geiton' (neighbor). Named in the 20th century by botanists studying salt-accumulating plants in American deserts.
Halogeton is a sneaky invasive plant that thrives where nothing else can—it sucks up so much salt that when livestock eat it, the salt accumulates and eventually poisons them, making it a pest that transformed ranching ecology across the American West.
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