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Conostylis stylidioides

Conostylis stylidioides
Photo: Kevin Thiele, CC BY 3.0 au

Conostylis stylidioides is a low, rhizomatous, grass-like perennial from the sandplains of Western Australia, grown as a hardy rockery or groundcover plant. It needs sun, sharp drainage and sandy soil, and it is rarely grown as a houseplant.

Family
Haemodoraceae (Haemodor family)
Grows as
Grass, Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry out between waterings once established.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm conditions; protect from severe frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Conostylis stylidioides is a rhizomatous, stoloniferous, perennial, grass-like plant or herb in the family Haemodoraceae and is endemic to the west of Western Australia. It has flat leaves and yellow, tube-shaped flowers.

Where it grows

This species of conostylis grows in sandy soil in mallee scrub along the coast from Dirk Hartog Island to Geraldton and inland as far as Yuna in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Yalgoo bioregions of western Western Australia.

Other Conostylis plants

Prickly Conostylis · Conostylis albescens · Trumpets · Conostylis angustifolia · Conostylis argentea · Golden Conostylis · Conostylis bealiana · Conostylis bracteata · Conostylis breviscapa · Grey Cottonhead · Conostylis canteriata · Conostylis caricina

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Conostylis stylidioides 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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