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Mulga bluebush is a straggly, drought-tolerant shrub native to arid central Western Australia, grown mainly for dryland and revegetation planting. It thrives in full sun and very free-draining, stony or slightly saline soils, and needs little water.
Maireana thesioides, commonly known as mulga bluebush or lax bluebush, is a plant in the Amaranthaceae family and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a weak, straggly, mostly glabrous shrub with slender, often drooping branches, fleshy, narrowly spindle-shaped leaves, flowers arranged singly and a crusty, glabrous fruiting perianth with a thin, horizontal wing.
Maireana thesioides grows on stony flats or in sub-saline areas from Koorda north to the Hamersley Range and east to Menzies in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Gascoyne, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Pilbara and Yalgoo bioregions of central Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana thesioides 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.
