Myricaria germanica

Myricaria germanica is in the tamarisk or Tamaricaceae family, native to Eurasia, from the Pyrenees and Fennoscandia through the Alps and Carpathians to the Caucasus and Kashmir. It is a shrub up to 2.5 m high with rod-like branches.

• Leaves are linear-lanceolate, 2–5 mm long, bluish-green , obtuse, sessile, glaucous, often overlapping.
• Flowers are pale pink, in terminal, spike-like racemes 4–12 cm long; petals are mostly 5-merous, about 4 mm long.
• Fruit is a capsule 8–11 mm long, narrowly pyramidal, with crested seeds.