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Inland Pink Starflower

Calytrix duplistipulata

Inland Pink Starflower
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Inland Pink Starflower is a small, hairless shrub from arid inland Western Australia, grown for its pink to purple starry flowers. It needs sun, sharp drainage and little water, and is best suited to dry-summer gardens.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings once established.
Soil
Sandy, free-draining soil; poor soil is fine.
Temperature
Tolerates warm, dry summers and cool winters; protect from prolonged frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Calytrix duplistipulata is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped or oblong leaves, and pink to purple flowers with about 9 to 16 stamens in a single row.

Where it grows

This species of Calytrix grows in mallee heath in sandy soils on undulating plains from the Hyden district to the Fraser Range district in the Coolgardie, Mallee and Murchison bioregions of inland Western Australia.

Other Calytrix plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calytrix duplistipulata 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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