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Woolly bluebush, a small, woolly-branched, mostly dioecious shrub from arid Australia, usually under 50 cm tall. It suits dry, free-draining sites and is grown mainly for xeriscape or revegetation, not as a common garden or houseplant.
Maireana eriantha, commonly known as woolly bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a mainly a dioecious shrub with hairy branches, fleshy, very narrowly oblong leaves, flowers arranged singly or in pairs, and a silky-woolly fruiting perianth with a thin-walled tube with leathery wings.
Woolly bluebush mainly grows on rocky hills and plains and is common north of Port Augusta in South Australia and in adjacent areas of Queensland, the Northern Territory and New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana eriantha 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.
