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Ptilotus sessilifolius
Ptilotus sessilifolius, commonly known as silver-tails or crimson foxtail, is a flowering plant in the Amaranthaceae family and is endemic to mostly inland areas of continental Australia. It is an erect, shrubby perennial plant with densely hairy stems, egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and spherical or oval spikes of pinkish flowers.
Silver-tails occurs in every mainland state of mainland Australia, and in the Northern Territory. It grows on ranges, hills, rises and on dunefields, sometimes near intermittent watercourses in Western Australia the Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ptilotus sessilifolius 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.
