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Maireana planifolia
Low bluebush is a small, openly branched Australian shrub of arid and semi-arid country, grown mainly for its silvery foliage and drought tolerance. The key to growing it is full sun and very well-drained soil, since it comes from dry rocky slopes and sandy mulga scrub.
Maireana planifolia, commonly known as low bluebush is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, and is endemic to western parts of Australia. It is an openly-branched shrub with woolly branches, flattened, egg-shaped leaves, flowers arranged singly or in pairs, and a straw-coloured fruiting perianth with a translucent horizontal wing.
Low bluebush grows on the rocky slopes of hills in sand and in mulga scrub between latitudes 22°S and 31°S in Western Australia, in the southern half of the Northern Territory and in the north of South Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana planifolia 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.
