Dwarf Bluebush

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Maireana humillima

Low spreading hairy herb or sub-shrub to 15 cm high, with a woody base and slender, hairy branches. Leaves narrow and pointed to 20 mm long, covered with tawny hairs. Flowers solitary, bisexual.

Details
Flora Type
Chenopods
Distinctive Features

Fruit woolly above, smooth below, dark brown when dry, with a stiff horizontal wing of 12 mm diameter, faintly veined with a radial slit.
Biology

Perennial. Widespread colonizing species. Never dominant.
Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Flowers most of the year
Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Chenopodiaceae
Genus
Maireana
Species
humillima

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

Perennial. Colonises soil scalds. After the French botanist Charles Lemaire (1800-1871) who specialised in the Cacti family.

Interesting Facts
Native Status
Native