Common Name: Spiny Saltbush
Botanical Name: Rhagodia spinescens
Family: CHENOPODIACEAE
Description:
Spiny shrub to 1 m high. Bluish-grey, opposite, triangular to egg-shaped, to 2 cm long. Tiny flowers, in branched clusters of spikes. Throughout year. Dark red berries. Summer.
Spiny shrub to 1 m high. Bluish-grey, opposite, triangular to egg-shaped, to 2 cm long. Tiny flowers, in branched clusters of spikes. Throughout year. Dark red berries. Summer.
Natural Distribution:
Common to low rainfall mallee and northern arid communities in SA. In all mainland States and Territories.
Common to low rainfall mallee and northern arid communities in SA. In all mainland States and Territories.
Notes:
Recorded as endangered in the Southern Lofty region.
Recorded as endangered in the Southern Lofty region.
