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Andersonia carinata

Andersonia carinata is a slender, erect Western Australian shrub in the heath family, growing 10 to 45 cm tall with pink flowers. It is a native of sandy and lateritic plains in the south-west, so it needs sharp drainage and sun.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between drinks; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Sandy, free-draining, acidic to neutral mix, poor in nutrients.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from frost below about 0 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Andersonia carinata is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with more or less egg-shaped leaves with a keeled base, and pink, pinkish-white or pinkish-purple flowers.

Where it grows

This species of Andersonia grows in sand and lateritic soils on plains in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Andersonia plants

Andersonia annelsii · Rice Flower · Andersonia auriculata · Andersonia axilliflora · Andersonia barbata · Andersonia bifida · Andersonia brevifolia · Foxtails · Andersonia echinocephala · Andersonia ferricola · Andersonia geniculata · Andersonia gracilis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Andersonia carinata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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