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Silky Wilsonia

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Scientific Name:Wilsonia humilis
Silky Wilsonia Plant
Silky Wilsonia - plant
Photo: A J Brown


Status:


Native to Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.


Plant Description:


Prostrate or weakly ascending, mat forming, small perennial herb or subshrub to 10 cm tall. Branches densely covered with very short, whitish, interwoven hairs. Leaves concave, crowded and closely overlapping, oblong, lanceolate or ovate, 1.5-4 mm long, 1-3 mm wide and silvery with appressed hairs. Flowers white and tubular with 5 short triangular teeth, 2-3 mm long. Fruit is a 3mm long capsule. Flowering in spring-summer.


Habitat:


Scattered across southern Victoria in coastal saltmarshes and around inland salt lakes.

RegionSalinity ClassWaterlogging Class
Wimmera, WesternS3, S4W2, W3


Comment:


Often appearing as a coloniser of bare, saline ground.

Silky Wilsonia Photos

Silky Wilsonia mature flowers
Mature flowers of Silky Wilsonia
Photo: A J Brown
Silky Wilsonia Plant - leaves
Silky Wilsonia - leaves
Photo: A J Brown

Silky Wilsonia Plant - creeping stems
Silky Wilsonia - creeping stems
Photo: A J Brown


Silky wilsonia - mat
Extensive mats of Siky Wilsonia
Photo: A J Brown

Silky Wilsonia Plant - leaves
Silky Wilsonia - leaves
Photo: A J Brown

Silky wilsonia developing capsule
Newly developing capsule of Silky Wilsonia
Photo: A J Brown

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