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Maireana scleroptera, hard-wing bluebush, is a low woody perennial of arid inland Australia, grown mainly as a drought-tolerant native in dry gardens. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and very little water.
Maireana scleroptera, commonly known as hard-wing bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to arid parts of inland Australia. It is a prostrate to erect perennial with narrowly oblong to narrowly egg-shaped leaves, pairs of densely woolly bisexual flowers, and a cartilaginous to woody hemispherical fruiting perianth with five broadly oblong, horizontal wings.
Maireana scleroptera is found in the Central Ranges and Great Victoria Desert bioregions of South Australia and Western Australia, the Finke bioregion of South Australia and the Northern Territory, the Stony Plains bioregion of South Australia and the Gascoyne and Gibson Desert bioregions of Western Australia. It grows in loamy soils on plains and claypans.
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 scleroptera 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.
