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Maireana obrienii is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with mostly glabrous branchlets, fleshy, narrowly oval to club-shaped leaves, bisexual flowers and a fruiting perianth with a flat wing with a pink margin.
This species of bluebush grows in grassland and open woodland, and occurs in southern Queensland and in an arc from near Jerilderie in New South Wales and west to Serpentine and between Inglewood, Echuca and Bendigo in Victoria.
Bluebush · Maireana amoena · Cottonbush · Grey Bluebush · Low Bluebush · Maireana atkinsiana · Eastern Cottonbush · Maireana campanulata · Maireana cannonii · Cottony Bluebush · Maireana cheelii · Fissure Weed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana obrienii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
