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Andersonia latiflora

Andersonia latiflora is a low, straggling Western Australian shrub in the heath family, growing under 30 cm tall with small white flowers. It is a wild native of gravelly soils in the south-west and is rarely grown in gardens.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established, allowing the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly, acidic soil.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Andersonia latiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, straggling shrub with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and white flowers.

Where it grows

This species of Andersonia grows in gravelly soils in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain 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 carinata · Andersonia echinocephala · Andersonia ferricola · Andersonia geniculata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Andersonia latiflora 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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