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Atriplex sturtii, commonly called saltbush, is a small native Australian shrub, up to about 30 cm high, that is endangered in the wild. It grows in arid and semi-arid Channel Country and suits dry, open, salt-tolerant conditions.
Atriplex sturtii, commonly known as saltbush, is an endangered species within the widespread genus Atriplex. A. sturtii is a native Australian shrub and grows in the Channel Country bioregion, also referred to as 'Corner Country'.
Atriplex sturtii occurs in arid zone ecosystems within the Channel Country bioregion, covering a geographic area of 28,885,384ha. This bioregion spans across parts of the Northern Territory (NT), southwest Queensland, northeast South Australia and northwest New South Wales (NSW). The only known isolated population of the species in the Northern Territory occurs in the Rainbow Valley Claypan.
Channel Country is located on the traditional lands of at least 25 diverse Indigenous nations, including the Malyangaba, Kullilla and Dhirari peoples.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Atriplex sturtii 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.
