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Conospermum huegelii, the slender smokebush, is a low clumped shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its pale blue to cream flower spikes. It is reasonably difficult to establish, so give it well-drained, sandy soil and good conditions from the start.
Conospermum huegelii, commonly known as the slender smokebush, is a species of flowering plant endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, clumped shrub with thread-like to narrowly cylindrical leaves, and spikes of pale blue to cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers and hairy nuts.
This attractive ornamental plant is suitable for gardens or containers. The flowers are used for decoration and are long lasting. It is reasonably difficult to establish, propagation is by cuttings and can be sown by seed.
Slender smokebush is found in swampy areas and among granite outcrops in the Swan Coastal Plain and in the Darling Range of Western Australia where it grows in sandy-gravelly soils in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Conospermum huegelii 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.
