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Andersonia hammersleyana

Andersonia hammersleyana
Photo: Em Lamond, CC BY 4.0

Andersonia hammersleyana is a small shrub from the Jarrah Forest of south-western Western Australia, with bright blue tubular flowers in spring. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care advice below is general for the genus.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gravelly, acidic soil.
Temperature
Mild Mediterranean-type climate; tolerates light frost, protect below -5 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Andersonia hammersleyana is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect or low-lying, straggling shrub with twisted, linear to narrowly egg-shaped leaves and bright blue, tube-shaped flowers.

Where it grows

This species of Andersonia grows in open jarrah woodland near Mount Lindsey in the Jarrah Forest bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

Other Andersonia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Andersonia hammersleyana 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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