Salsola inermisis a summer annual xerohalophyte confined to somewhat salty Ioessial soils and to soils disturbed by human activity in deserts of the Middle East. It was found growing on slopes with leached upper soil layers and salty layers at depth, in association with scorpion burrows. It is assumed that the disturbance caused by piles of seedless soil disposed of by the scorpions assists the establishment ofS. inermisand probably eases its competition with the nonhalophytes typically growing on the slopes.
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