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Calytrix harvestiana

Calytrix harvestiana is a small, hairless shrub from the sandy heaths of Western Australia, reaching about 75 cm, with purple-mauve flowers. Like most Calytrix it is grown for its flowers and needs good drainage and full sun in a dry, open spot.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established and let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix, low in phosphorus.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Western Australia (Irwin)
Climate
subtropical

About

Calytrix harvestiana is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with linear, elliptic or egg-shaped leaves and purplish mauve to purple or violet flowers with about 60 to 70 pale yellow stamens in multiple rows.

Where it grows

Calytrix harvestiana grows in sandy heath and Casuarina campestris heath in the Kalbarri-Yuna district in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion of 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 harvestiana 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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