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Calytrix oldfieldii is a small, glabrous shrub from south-west Western Australia with mauve to magenta star-like flowers in spring. It needs good drainage and full sun to thrive, and is best suited to Mediterranean-style gardens.
Calytrix oldfieldii is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with linear, oblong or egg-shaped leaves and mauve, pink, red, magenta or violet flowers with about 50 to 75 yellow stamens in several rows.
This species of Calytrix grows in low, open heath in gravel or sand, or in tall heath with Xylomelum in sandy clay and in winter-wet areas from the Kalbarri district to the Eneabba district, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calytrix oldfieldii 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.
