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Conostylis teretifolia is a small, tufted, grass-like perennial from south-west Western Australia, grown mainly as a native ground cover or rockery plant. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and sandy soil, and it is best left undisturbed once established.
Conostylis teretifolia is a rhizomatous, tufted, perennial, grass-like plant or herb in the family Haemodoraceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has flat leaves, short stems and yellow to reddish, tube-shaped flowers.
This species of conostylis grows in sand and sandy loam. Subspecies planescens occurs in isolated sites between Gingin, Yanchep and Wanneroo in the Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia, and subsp. teretifolia in northern heaths between the Moore River and the Arrowsmith River in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Conostylis teretifolia 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.
