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Andersonia macranthera

Andersonia macranthera
Photo: NSW Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, CC BY 4.0
Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Andersonia macranthera is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a spindly erect, or straggling shrub with pointed egg-shaped leaves and pink, pinkish blue or pinkish purple and red flowers.

Where it grows

This species of Andersonia grows in sand on sandplains near Esperance in the 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 carinata · Andersonia echinocephala · Andersonia ferricola · Andersonia geniculata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Andersonia macranthera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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