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Maireana radiata
Also called Radiate Bluebush
Grey bluebush (Maireana radiata) is a low, densely branched, grey-woolly shrub native to dry southern Australia, usually growing to about 30 cm. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant plant for arid, free-draining sites and is rarely grown as an ornamental outside its native range.
Maireana radiata, commonly known as grey bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is an erect, grey, densely branched shrub with its branches covered with woolly hairs, mostly unisexual flowers and a glabrous fruiting perianth with a brittle, almost woody tube and a papery wing.
Grey bluebush is widespread in drier areas of Australia, growing on slightly saline or alkaline calcareous soils, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Great Victoria Desert, Hampton, Mallee and Nullarbor bioregions of Western Australia, the south of South Australia, the north-west of Victoria and the far south-west of New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana radiata 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.
