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Maireana integra, commonly called entire-wing bluebush, is a low woolly shrub native to arid and semi-arid Australia, growing up to about 1 m. It is a saltbush relative suited to saline flats and claypans, and is grown mainly for drought-tolerant landscaping and revegetation.
Maireana integra, commonly known as entire-wing bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a shrub with woolly branches, more or less terete leaves and bisexual flowers arranged singly, the glabrous fruiting perianth tube-shaped with a simple, glabrous wing.
This species of Maireana usually grows in loam or clay in saline flats and claypans and is found from the Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Nullarbor and Pilbara bioregions of Western Australia, and west through South Australia, the southern Northern Territory and Queensland to the western plains of New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana integra 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.
