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Cassinia hewsoniae

Cassinia hewsoniae is an erect, sticky-stemmed Australian shrub of the daisy family, native to mallee and woodland in south-central New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It is a hardy native that suits dry, open sites.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; it tolerates dry conditions and resents waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil, including poor native soils.
Temperature
Tolerates cool winters and hot dry summers typical of inland Australia; frost hardy.
How easy
Easy
Native range
New South Wales

About

Cassinia hewsoniae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is native to New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It is an erect shrub with a sticky, densely-hairy stems, needle-shaped leaves and flower heads arranged in flat or rounded corymbs.

Where it grows

This species of Cassinia grows in mallee and woodland in south-central New South Wales and in the Australian Capital Territory.

Other Cassinia plants

Cassinia accipitrum · Australian Tauhinu · Cassinia adunca · Chineseshrub · Yellow Cassinia · Cassinia compacta · Cassinia complanata · Cassinia copensis · Cunninghams Everlasting · Cassinia decipiens · Stiff Cassinia · Dwarf Cassinia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cassinia hewsoniae 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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