Common Name: Pearl Bluebush
Botanical Name: Maireana sedifolia
Family: CHENOPODIACEAE
Description:
Blue-grey, compact, rounded shrub, to 1 m high. Small, fleshy, club-shaped, with a rounded blunt tip, 0.5-1 cm long, covered in fine silvery hairs. Inconspicuous, small, occurring in pairs with one maturing into a fruit. Throughout the year. Tan, hemispherical to circular, flat papery wings, to 1 cm diameter. Variable, commonly summer.
Blue-grey, compact, rounded shrub, to 1 m high. Small, fleshy, club-shaped, with a rounded blunt tip, 0.5-1 cm long, covered in fine silvery hairs. Inconspicuous, small, occurring in pairs with one maturing into a fruit. Throughout the year. Tan, hemispherical to circular, flat papery wings, to 1 cm diameter. Variable, commonly summer.
Natural Distribution:
Distributed throughout northern arid regions, on shallow limestone soils, in most mainland agricultural districts of SA (absent from the South-East and Southern Lofty). Extends into WA, NT and Vic.
Distributed throughout northern arid regions, on shallow limestone soils, in most mainland agricultural districts of SA (absent from the South-East and Southern Lofty). Extends into WA, NT and Vic.
Notes:
Fruits are consumed by a variety of birds and lizards. Similar in appearance to Maireana pyramidata. May also be confused from a distance with Cratystylis conocephala (Bluebush Daisy) and Maireana astrotricha (Low Bluebush).
Fruits are consumed by a variety of birds and lizards. Similar in appearance to Maireana pyramidata. May also be confused from a distance with Cratystylis conocephala (Bluebush Daisy) and Maireana astrotricha (Low Bluebush).
