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Chloanthes parviflora

Chloanthes parviflora
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Chloanthes parviflora is a small, rounded, woolly-leaved shrub of eastern Australian heath and dry forest, grown mainly by enthusiasts of native plants. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and little water once established.

Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Sandy or gravelly, free-draining soil, low in nutrients.
Temperature
Tolerates warm and seasonally dry conditions; frost tolerance is not well documented, so protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Chloanthes parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is a small, rounded shrub with dark green, linear leaves and mauve tubular flowers. It grows in New South Wales and Queensland.

Where it grows

This species grows in sandy to gravelly soils in heath and sclerophyll forest. In New South Wales it grows from north of Cooma to Grafton, Coffs Harbour and the Pilliga Scrub. In the south of the state between Braidwood and Nerriga. In Queensland it is found mostly in the eastern and south-eastern locations, including Jericho, Blackdown, and Brisbane, near Rockhampton and Toowoomba.

Other Chloanthes plants

Chloanthes coccinea · Chloanthes glandulosa · Chloanthes stoechadis · Chloanthes

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chloanthes parviflora 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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