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Conospermum tenuifolium

Conospermum tenuifolium
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
E. New South Wales
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Conospermum tenuifolium, commonly known as sprawling smoke-bush or slender wire lily, is a flowering plant of the family Proteaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a low shrub with linear to lance-shaped leaves, panicles of pinkish white to mauve flowers and nuts with velvety white hairs.

Where it grows

Sprawling smoke-bush often grows in damp places in heath and woodland on ridges, slopes and creek banks, and is widespread on the Central Coast, near Nowra on the South Coast, and on the Blue Mountains.

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 tenuifolium 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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