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Calytrix strigosa is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a semi-prostrate shrub with linear, elliptic, lance-shaped or round leaves, and pale pink, mauve to purple flowers with about 30 to 70 stamens in several rows.
This species of Calytrix is found on sand dunes and sand plains in the south-west of Western Australia from Shark Bay to near Perth and inland to a line between Wiluna and the Fraser Range in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Yalgoo, where it grows in heath on sand and limestone, laterite and clay soils.
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 strigosa 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.
