Tamarix parviflora

Tamarix parviflora is a species of tamarisk known by the common name smallflower tamarisk.^[2]

Smallflower tamarisk
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Tamaricaceae
Genus:	Tamarix
Species:	T. parviflora
Binomial name
Tamarix parviflora DC.
Synonyms
Tamarix cretica

It is native to south-eastern Europe (Albania, East Aegean Islands, Greece, Crete and the former Yugoslavia) and to Turkey.^[1] It has been introduced elsewhere, in places such as; Algeria, Austria, Cape Provinces, Corsica, Italy, Libya, Mexico, Pakistan, Sicily, Spain, West Himalayas and western North America (Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon and Texas),^[3] where it is an invasive introduced species.

It easily inhabits moist habitat, especially in saline soils. It is a shrub or tree growing up to about 5 meters tall. The branching twigs are covered in tiny linear leaves no more than 2 or 3 millimetres long. The inflorescence is a dense spike with flowers 1 to 4 centimeters long. Each tiny flower has four pink petals.

It was first published and described by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in Prodr. vol.3 on page 97 in 1828.^[3]