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Immature Russian thistle, Salsola tragus, with finely dissected leaves and reddish to purplish stripes along the stems.

Purplish stems with thin, green, spiky leaves growing along rocky soil. Credit: Mary Ellen (Mel) Harte, Bugwood.org<br />Licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License</a>
Credit: Mary Ellen (Mel) Harte, Bugwood.org
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
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