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Maireana appressa
Grey bluebush is a small, intricately branched, woolly-white shrub native to arid and semi-arid Australia, found near salt lakes and on breakaways. It is drought-tolerant and suited to dry, open sites, with good drainage the main requirement.
Maireana appressa, commonly known as grey bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is an intricately branched, spreading or erect shrub covered with woolly, white hairs with narrowly triangular to narrowly oblong leaves, bisexual flowers arranged singly, and a top-shaped fruiting perianth with horizontal wings.
Grey bluebush occurs in all mainland states and territories apart from the Australian Capital Territory. It grows near salt lakes, sometimes on breakaways and is widespread in the west of New South Wales, in Queensland, the southern half of the Northern Territory and in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Great Sandy Desert, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of Western Australia.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana appressa 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.
