Australian Native Plants - Saltbush
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Atriplex amnicola
(Swamp Saltbush) |
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Height
0.3m - 1.7m
Spread
to 4m |
The Swamp Saltbush ranges in form from prostrate to erect shrub. The branches spread along the ground, and may take root. The leaves are bluish-green and covered in fine silver hairs. Male and female flowers are borne on separate plants. Male... Read more > |
Atriplex cinerea
(Coast Saltbush) |
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Height
1m - 2m
Spread
2m - 3m |
The Coast Saltbush is a dense shrub. There are separate male and female plants. Female flowers are cream and produced in clusters. Male flowers are small and purplish-green. Read more > |
Atriplex nummularia
(Old Man Saltbush) |
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Old Man Saltbush is a large grey shrub to 2 m tall and to 4-5 m wide, with brittle woody branches. Leaves scaly, shortly stalked, almost circular to broadly ovate, 10-25 mm long.
Plants dioecious with flowers in panicles at the ends of... Read more > |
Atriplex paludosa
(Marsh Saltbush) |
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Marsh Saltbush is a slender, erect perennial from 30-150 cm high. Silver-grey leaves with minute scales when mature (greener when young), ovate-triangular to oblong or lance-shaped, mostly 1-2 cm long with blunt tips and entire (not toothed)... Read more > |
Atriplex semibaccata
(Creeping Saltbush) |
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Creeping Saltbush is a perennial prostrate low creeping shrub, and grows up to 50 cm tall and 1.8 m wide.
Its leaves are opposite, flat and oblong (sometimes ovate), and around 10-20 mm long. They are smooth on top, scaly underneath and... Read more > |
Atriplex suberecta
(Lagoon Saltbush) |
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Lagoon Saltbush is a low annual shrub, with rigid ascending stems to about 40 cm high.
Leaves oblong or obovate and rounded at the apex and 2 - 7cm long, green above and mealy white below, the margins coarsely toothed.
Plant... Read more > |
Atriplex vesicaria
(Bladder Saltbush) |
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Height
0.5m - 1m
Spread
1m - 2m |
The Bladder Saltbush is a dense shrub with greyish succulent oval leaves oval leaves 5mm - 25mm long. Small clusters of flowers are produced in at various times throughout the year. Read more > |
