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Snow Myrtle

Calytrix alpestris

Snow Myrtle
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Calytrix alpestris, commonly known as snow-myrtle, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a shrub with wiry branchlets, linear to narrowly egg-shaped or narrowly lance-shaped leaves and clusters of white flowers with 14 to 37 white stamens in a single row.

Where it grows

Calytrix alpestris grows in heath or heathy woodland in the west and north-west of Victoria and the far south-east of South Australia.

Other Calytrix plants

Fringe Myrtle · Calytrix acutifolia · Calytrix amethystina · Yellow Starflower · Calytrix arborescens · Calytrix asperula · Calytrix aurea · Calytrix birdii · Calytrix brevifolia · Calytrix breviseta · Calytrix brownii · Calytrix carinata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calytrix alpestris 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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