Family:
Chenopodiaceae
Sclerolaena tricuspis
Streaked Poverty-bush
Other Names:
Regional Subspecies:
Habit:
Rounded, hairless, perennial to 70cm high. Red coloured plant, with stems streaked red and yellow. Squat fruit with three slender spreading spines 6-12mm long (Sep-Feb).
Habitat & Site Selection:
Mainly in depressions in Black Bluebush and Bladder Saltbush communities with duplex and clay soils.
Values & Uses:
Populates degraded Bladder Saltbush communities, helping prevent further erosion. Somewhat useful in protecting seedlings of other plants. Species will start to recede as other species come back.