Aeluropus lagopoides

Aeluropus lagopoides is a mat-forming, straggling perennial with long stolons and pungent foliage.

[2][3] Aeluropus lagopoides is found in northern Africa, the eastern Mediterranean region, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and eastwards in Asia as far as Pakistan and India.

[5] Aeluropus lagopoides is adapted to the saline conditions in which it is often found by having a thick waxy cuticle, and by having glands that can secrete excess salt.

[6] Aeluropus lagopoides is useful for stabilising sand and produces good fodder, dying back in the dry season and sprouting well after winter rains.

[6] It is favoured by grazing animals because the foliage does not accumulate salt in the same way as does that of Suaeda fruticosa and Salsola stocksii, other plants with which it is found growing on saltlands.