The flowers are 3,5-5,0 mm long with lanceolate-oval tepals, the stigmas are rounded at their tip.

The tube of the fruit is broadly cylindric, often dilated to its base, its bottom with circular-oval pits.

[1][2] The species has been first described in 1798 by Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein as Salsola glauca (In: Tableau des provinces situées sur la côte occidentale de la Mer Caspienne, St. Pétersbourg, 1798, p. 112).

[1][2] It grows in dry semideserts or mountain steppes on stony or clayey ground, partly on salty soils, up to 2000 m above sea-level.

[1][2] Halothamnus glaucus is an important fodder plant for camels, sheep and goats[4] and is locally cultivated.