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Summer Starflower

Calytrix flavescens

Summer Starflower
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Calytrix flavescens, commonly known as summer starflower, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and yellow flowers with about 35 to 60 stamens in several rows.

Where it grows

Summer starflower grows on sand-plains, gentle slopes and sometimes in winter-wet areas from the Arrowsmith River district and southwards to the Blackwood River district in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia, where it grows on sandy soils over granite, laterite or sandstone.

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 flavescens 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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