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Conospermum quadripetalum

Conospermum quadripetalum is a low, straggly, spreading shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing up to about 30 cm tall, with blue or white tubular flowers in September to November. It is a wild species of sandy-clay flats and is rarely grown, so care advice is limited.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; Conospermum species dislike wet feet and do best in free-draining conditions.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or sandy-loam soil; avoid heavy clay and waterlogging.
Temperature
Tolerates mild Mediterranean-type conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Western Australia (Scoll River area)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Conospermum quadripetalum is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a diffuse, straggly shrub with hooked leaves, circular in cross section, and panicles of blue, tube-shaped flowers with white and red hairs.

Where it grows

This species of Conospermum is found on flats behind coastal hills along the south coast in the Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of Western Australia, where it grows in sandy-clay soils.

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 quadripetalum 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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