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Felty bluebush is a low, woolly-branched Australian desert shrub of the saltbush family, typically around 1 m tall. It thrives in dry, open ground with full sun and very little water.
Maireana tomentosa, commonly known as felty bluebush, is a plant in the Amaranthaceae family and is endemic to Australia. It is an erect, open shrub with woolly branches, semiterete leaves, flowers arranged singly and a glabrous fruiting perianth with a horizontal wing with indistinct veins.
Felty bluebush is widespread in Western Australia south of 20° south, southern Northern Territory, northern South Australia and north-western New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana tomentosa 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.
