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Conospermum boreale

Conospermum boreale
Photo: Murray NZ, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Conospermum boreale is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, much-branched shrub with egg-shaped to elliptic or lance-shaped leaves, and panicles of woolly, white flowers.

Where it grows

This species of Conospermum is found between Kalbarri and Badgingarra, sometimes as far south as Perth, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia where it grows in sand or laterite. Subspecies ascendens is found as far north as Shark Bay and subsp. borealis is found as far south as Perth.

Other Conospermum plants

Conospermum acerosum · Conospermum amoenum · Conospermum brachyphyllum · Conospermum bracteosum · Conospermum brownii · Conospermum burgessiorum · Conospermum caeruleum · Conospermum canaliculatum · Conospermum capitatum · Conospermum cinereum · Conospermum coerulescens · Tassel Smokebush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Conospermum boreale 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.

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