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Conospermum petiolare

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Conospermum petiolare is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a tufted subshrub or shrub with dense, erect, narrowly oblong leaves, and panicles of velvety cream-coloured, orange-yellow or pink, tube-shaped flowers, the fruit a hairy, brownish-yellow to gold-coloured nut.

Where it grows

This species of Conospermum is found on rocky slopes and winter wet areas in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions, and is common between the Stirling Range and Fitzgerald River National Park of southern Western Australia, where it grows in sandy soils over granite or quartzite.

Other Conospermum plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Conospermum petiolare 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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