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Sclerolaena hostilis is a low, wild shrub from the arid north-west of Western Australia, found along creeks and on stony plains. It is a native of harsh desert conditions and is not a common garden plant, so care for it is best matched to its dry, sunny, free-draining habitat.
Sclerolaena hostilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Western Australia. It was first described in 1904 by Ludwig Diels as Bassia hostilis, but was transferred to the genus, Sclerolaena in 1921 by Karel Domin.
(Australian authorities still place the genus Sclerolaena in the Chenopodiaceae family.)
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sclerolaena hostilis 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.
