United States, Illinois, DuPage, Morton Arboretum, Adjacent to the West Chicago Prairie Forest Preserve in West Chicago; in railroad ballast on the east side of the preserve near where the Illinois Prairie Path crosses theion Pacific and EJ & E Railroads.
The inflorescences on these plants were densely spicate with appressed bracts as opposed to the loosely spicate inflorescence and spreading bracts typical of Salsola kali tenuifolia.