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Muellerolaria rudis

Muellerolaria rudis
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Muellerolaria rudis, the azure daisy-bush, is a stiff, usually short-lived Australian shrub in the daisy family with blue to purple daisy-like flower heads. Grow it in full sun in free-draining soil, as it suits dry, open conditions.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
Hardy in mild to warm conditions; tolerates heat and light frost (roughly -5 to 40 °C).
How easy
Easy
Native range
SW. & SE. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Muellerolaria rudis, commonly known as azure daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a usually short-lived shrub with crowded elliptic or egg-shaped leaves, and pale blue, mauve or purple and orange, daisy-like inflorescences.

Where it grows

Muellerolaria rudis grows in mallee and woodland in western New South Wales, north-western Victoria, the south-east of South Australia, and southern Western Australia.

Other Muellerolaria plants

Muellerolaria · Muellerolaria picridifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Muellerolaria rudis 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.

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