Bassia scoparia (L.) Beck Bassia scoparia (L.) Beck in Reichenbach, Icon. Fl. Germ. Helv. 24: 155 (1909) ≡ Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad., Neues J. Bot. 3 ((3-4): 85 (1809) ≡ Chenopodium scoparia L., Sp. Pl. 1: 221 (1753). = Suaeda sieversiana Pall., Ill. Pl.: 45 (1803) ≡ Kochia sieversiana (Pall.) C. A. Mey. in Ledeb., Fl. Altaic. 1: 415 (1829). = Kochia scoparia var. densiflora Moq. in DC., Prodr. 13 (2): 131 (1849) ≡ Kochia densiflora (Moq.) Aellen, Mitt. Basler Bot. Ges. 2 (1): 13 (1954) ≡ Kochia scoparia subsp. densiflora (Moq.) Aellen in Hegi, Ill. Fl. Mitteleur., ed. 2, 3 / 2: 710 (1961). Native status Established alien. Conservation status Not applicable. Distribution Orenburg Region: Belyaevka, Buzuluk, Gai, Ilek, Kuvandyk, Novoorsk, Novosergievka, Perevolotsky, Ponomaryovka, Sol' - Iletsk, Sorochinsk, Totskoe Districts, Orenburg City (Fig. 54). Previous reports: Ryabinina (1998), Knjazev (2009). The species occurs along railroad beds, in populated places and their closest proximity. The species is distributed as native in Central Asia (western China, Mongolia, southern Siberia). It is widely known as alien and naturalised in the temperate zone around the World. It spreads along roads and has arrived to the territory due to its formerly common cultivation as a technical plant (used for brooms in villages).

Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541