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Maireana amoena is a small, brittle, succulent-leaved shrub from the saltbush family, native to Western Australia's arid sandy rises near salt lakes. It is a hardy native that suits dry, open gardens with excellent drainage.
Maireana amoena is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a small, brittle shrub with fleshy, spherical, oval or terete leaves, pairs of male and female flowers, and a hemispherical utricle with a short tube and horizontal wings.
This species of Maireana is widespread in Western Australia where it usually grows on sandy rises near salt lakes from near Carnarvon to near Norseman.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana amoena 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.
