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Walsholaria muelleri

Walsholaria muelleri
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Walsholaria muelleri, the Mueller daisy bush, is a compact or spreading native shrub of southern Australian mallee and dry woodland, grown for its white and yellow daisy flowers. It needs full sun, good drainage and dry conditions.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings and avoid wet roots.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, alkaline or low-nutrient soils.
Temperature
10–35 °C; tolerates hot summers and light frost once established.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. & S. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Walsholaria muelleri, commonly known as Mueller daisy bush, Mueller's daisy bush or Goldfields daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a compact or spreading shrub with scattered spatula-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

Where it grows

Walsholaria muelleri grows in mallee woodlands or spinifex communities and is widespread in the south-west of Western Australia, the south of South Australia, north-western Victoria and the far south-west of New South Wales.

Other Walsholaria plants

Walsholaria calcarea · Walsholaria cuneifolia · Walsholaria magniflora · Walsholaria

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Walsholaria muelleri 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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