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Darwinia thymoides

Darwinia thymoides
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Darwinia thymoides is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading to prostrate shrub with linear to lance-shaped leaves and groups of 4 to 8 green, red or white flowers surrounded by leaf-like bracts.

Where it grows

Darwinia thymoides grows on granite outcrops and along creeks in sandy to loam or clay soils in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Darwinia plants

Fine Leaved Darwinia · Darwinia apiculata · Darwinia biflora · Darwinia briggsiae · Darwinia camptostylis · Darwinia capitellata · Mogumber bell · Chapman's bell · Lemon Scented Darwinia · Yellow Mountain Bell · Darwinia diminuta · Darwinia diosmoides

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Darwinia thymoides 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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