别名：烟葫芦;珍珠;保日-保得日干纳;米星柴;雀猪毛菜;珍珠柴;米心;米心柴;猪粪柴;

科名：藜科 Chenopodiaceae

属名：猪毛菜属 Salsola

《中国植物志》第25(2)卷166页
  10.珍珠猪毛菜 珍珠（中国高等植物图鉴）图版37: 1-4
  Salsola passerina Bunge in Linnaea 17: 4. 1843, in adnot. ; Grubov; Pl. Asiae Centr. 2: 93. 1966; 中国高等植物图鉴1: 596. f. 1191. 1972. Salsola gemmascens subsp. passerina (Bunge) Botsch. in Nov. Syst. Pl. Vasc. 6: 51. 1970.
  半灌木，高15-30厘米，植株密生丁字毛，自基部分枝；老枝木质，灰褐色，伸展；小枝草质，黄绿色，短枝缩短成球形。叶片锥形或三角形，长2-3毫米，宽约2毫米，顶端急尖，基部扩展，背面隆起，通常早落。花序穗状，生于枝条的上部；苞片卵形；小苞片宽卵形，顶端尖，两侧边缘为膜质；花被片长卵形，背部近肉质，边缘为膜质，果时自背面中部生翅；翅3个为肾形，膜质，黄褐色或淡紫红色，密生细脉，2个较小为倒卵形，花被果时（包括翅）直径7-8毫米; 花被片在翅以上部分，生丁字毛，向中央聚集成圆锥体，在翅以下部分，无毛；花药矩圆形，自基部分离至近顶部；花药附属物披针形，顶端急尖；柱头丝状。种子横生或直立。花期7-9月，果期8-9月。
  产甘肃、宁夏、青海及内蒙古。生于山坡，砾质滩地。蒙古也有。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 5 (2003)
Salsola passerina  Bunge
珍珠猪毛菜   zhen zhu zhu mao cai
Salsola gemmascens Pallas subsp. passerina (Bunge) Botschantzev.
Subshrubs 15-30 cm tall, densely covered with T-shaped hairs. Stem branched from base; woody branches spreading, gray-brown; annual branches yellow-green, with globose, dwarf branches. Leaves subulate or triangular, 2-3 × ca. 2 mm, abaxially slightly keeled, usually early deciduous, base expanded, apex acute. Inflorescence spikelike; bracts ovate; bractlets broadly ovate, margin membranous, apex acute. Perianth (including wings) 7-8 mm in diam. in fruit; segments narrowly ovate, abaxially slightly fleshy and winged from middle in fruit, margin membranous; portion of segment below wing glabrous; portion above wing connivent with others and forming a cone, T-shaped hairy; 3 wings yellow-brown or light purple-red, reniform; 2 other wings obovate, smaller. Anthers free from base to near apex, oblong; anther appendage lanceolate, apex acute. Stigmas filiform. Seed horizontal or vertical. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Aug-Sep.
Slopes, rocky alluvial fans. W Gansu, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai [Mongolia].