Fourwing Saltbush
Atriplex canescensFourwing Saltbush is a shrub native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 3–8 ft tall and 4 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms yellow in late spring. Evergreen — it holds its leaves through winter. Good for bees, birds, butterflies, nectar insects and small mammals.
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The facts
5 sources- Type
- Shrub
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Medium
- Height
- 3–8 ft
- Spread
- 4 ft
- Bloom
- Late Spring · yellow
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay · recorded on calcareous, caliche, dry, gravelly, limestone, loam, saline, sand, well drained
- Wildlife
- Supports bees, birds, browsing mammals, butterflies, nectar insects and small mammals
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
2 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.