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Woolly bluebush is a small, widely branched Australian shrub, typically under 50 cm tall, with woolly stems and leaves. It is a hardy desert and semi-arid species suited to sandy or loamy soils and dry conditions.
Maireana lanosa, commonly known as woolly bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a small, widely branched shrub with woolly branches, elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped leaves, and bisexual flowers arranged singly, the glabrous fruiting perianth tube-shaped with a wing with erect processes.
Maireana lanosa grows in sandy or loamy soils from the far north-west of Western Australia, through the south of the Northern Territory, and South Australia to south-western Queensland but is presumed extinct in New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana lanosa 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.
