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Ptilotus modestus, commonly known as paper foxtail is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to eastern continental Australia. It is an erect annual or short-lived perennial herb, with lance-shaped leaves at the base of the plant, more or less sessile stem leaves, and oval to hemispherical spikes of green flowers.
Paper foxtail grows on gravelly hills or rises and plains dominated by mulga shrubland and in eucalypt woodland, in the south of the Northern Territory and the western slopes and plains of New South Wales. It also occurs in Queensland and South Australia.
Ptilotus actinocladus · Ptilotus aervoides · Ptilotus albidus · Ptilotus alexandri · Ptilotus andersonii · Ptilotus angustifolius · Leafless Mulla Mulla · Ptilotus appendiculatus · Ptilotus aristatus · Ptilotus arthrolasius · Ptilotus astrolasius · Ptilotus auriculifolius
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ptilotus modestus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
