Abstract:Soil total salt, salt ions composition and correlations of different salt ions in habitat of Halogeton glomeratus in Minqin Oasis were studied. Results showed that H. glomeratus can accumulate salts and formed a certain salt island around its habitat. In the horizontal direction 0-60 cm away from H. glomeratus, the soil salinization degree aggravated with soil depth increases in 0-60 cm on the soil profile, among which anions were mainly Cl-, and SO42- and cations were Na+ and Ca2+. The main soil salinity were sodium chloride, calcium chloride, sodium sulfate and calcium sulfate, followed by magnesium chloride and magnesium sulfate. In 0-40 cm distance away from plant, the total salinity contents of the 0-20 cm soil layer on the soil profile were 0.98~1.52 g/kg and belonged to non-salinization soil, while that of the 20-40 cm and 40-60 cm soil layers were 2.25~2.30 g/kg and 3.10~3.16 g/kg, which belonged to light salinization soil and medium salinization soil, respectively. Furthermore, in the horizontal direction 60 cm distance away from the H. glomeratus, the total salinity content of 0-40 cm and 40-60 cm soil layers on the soil profile were 0.83~1.86 g/kg and 2.43 g/kg, which belonged to non-salinization and light salinization. There were extremely significantly positive correlations between soil salt content and ions contents except the content of HCO3-.