Eutrema salsugineum

Eutrema salsugineum (syn. Thellungiella salsuginea), the saltwater cress or salt-lick mustard, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae.^[3] A petite annual or biennial, it is native to Central Asia, Siberia, Mongolia, northern and eastern China, northwestern and western Canada, Montana and Colorado in the United States, and Nuevo León in Mexico.^[2] An extremophile halophyte, it is a close relative of the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana and has been adopted to study salt, drought, and cold stress resistance in plants, including having its genome sequenced.^[3][4][5]

Clade:Tracheophytes

Clade:Angiosperms

Clade:Eudicots

Clade:Rosids

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Eutrema salsugineum
Conservation status
Secure (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Eutrema
Species:	E. salsugineum
Binomial name
Eutrema salsugineum (Pall.) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
Synonyms[2]
List Arabidopsis glauca (Nutt.) Rydb. Arabidopsis salsuginea (Pall.) N.Busch Hesperis glauca Kuntze Hesperis salsuginea (Pall.) Kuntze Pilosella glauca (Nutt.) Rydb. Sisymbrium glaucum Nutt. Sisymbrium salsugineum Pall. Sisymbrium salsuginosum Willd. Sisymbrium salsum Georgi Stenophragma salsugineum Prantl Thellungiella salsuginea (Pall.) O.E.Schulz Thellungiella salsuginea f. robusta S.L.Welsh Thelypodium salsugineum (Pall.) B.L.Rob. Turritis diffusa Hook. Turritis salsuginosa (Pall.) DC. Turritis sanguinea Claus

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