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Silver saltbush

Atriplex rhagodioides

Also called River Saltbush, Saltbush

Silver saltbush is a hardy, salt-tolerant shrub native to southeastern South Australia and northwestern Victoria, usually found on river banks and flats. It thrives in full sun with good drainage and tolerates dry, saline soils.

Family
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth & beet family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings; established plants need little supplementary water.
Soil
Well-drained soil; tolerates sandy, loamy, alkaline and saline soils.
Temperature
Hardy to cold and heat typical of its arid and semi-arid range; protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SE. South Australia to NW. Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Atriplex rhagodioides, the river saltbush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, found from southeastern South Australia to northwestern Victoria. It usually grows on river banks or on flats.

Other Atriplex plants

Tubercled saltbush · Swamp Saltbush · Fan Saltbush · Silverscale saltbush · Native Orache · Atriplex billardierei · Silver saltbush · Fourwing saltbush · Gray saltbush · Flat-topped saltbush · Shadscale saltbush · Heartscale

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Atriplex rhagodioides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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