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Banksia cirsioides
Also called Thistle Leaved Banksia
Thistle Dryandra (Banksia cirsioides, now often listed as Dryandra cirsioides) is a rounded shrub, about 2 m tall, native to south-western Western Australia. It is grown for its hairy heads of yellow and pink flowers and needs full sun, good drainage and dry conditions.
Banksia cirsioides is a species of shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It has pinnatisect leaves with between six and ten lobes on each side and hairy heads of yellow and pink flowers.
Banksia cirsioides grows in kwongan between the Stirling Range and Munglinup in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions
Banksia acanthopoda · Prickly Banksia · Banksia acuminata · Wallum Banksia · Banksia alliacea · Cactus Dryandra · Northern Banksia · Yilgarn Dryandra · Banksia archaeocarpa · Banksia arctotidis · Banksia armata var. armata · Banksia armata var. ignicida
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Banksia cirsioides 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.
