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Hook Leaf Angianthus

Angianthus acrohyalinus

Hook Leaf Angianthus
Photo: Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn, CC BY-SA 4.0

Hook-leaf angianthus is a small hairy annual daisy from northern Western Australia, growing 10 to 30 cm tall with yellow flower heads in spring. It is a wild desert and coastal species rarely grown in gardens, so care notes are general.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly; it is adapted to dry, sporadic rainfall and should not sit wet.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil; tolerates clay and red sand in the wild.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, arid conditions; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia

About

Angianthus acrohyalinus, commonly known as hook-leaf angianthus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect, hairy annual herb with hairy lance-shaped leaves, elliptic or oval compound heads of yellow flowers, and egg-shaped or oval achenes with a bristly pappus.

Where it grows

This species of Angianthus grows in clay, loam or red sand on dunes, stony flats with Tecticornia species, and coastal plains in the Carnarvon, Gascoyne and Pilbara bioregions of northern Western Australia.

Other Angianthus plants

Angianthus brachypappus · Angianthus conocephalus · Angianthus cornutus · Coast Angianthus · Angianthus cyathifer · Angianthus drummondii · Angianthus glabratus · Angianthus globuliformis · Angianthus halophilus · Small Headed Angianthus · Angianthus micropodioides · Cone Spike Angianthus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Angianthus acrohyalinus 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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