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Grevillea humifusa
Spreading grevillea is a prostrate, trailing shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its dense silvery-grey foliage and pink to cream flowers. It is cultivated as an ornamental and is drought and frost tolerant once established.
Grevillea humifusa, commonly known as spreading grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate shrub with long, trailing stems, divided leaves with linear lobes and clusters of pink to pale red and cream-coloured flowers with a reddish, yellow-tipped style.
Grevillea humifusa is cultivated as an ornamental plant and features dense, silvery-grey foliage contrasting with the flowers. It can be grown in most well-drained soil and is drought and frost-tolerant.
Spreading grevillea is only known from a single population of about 1500 plants near Eneabba, where it grows in disturbed, open low woodland on gravelly loam soils. The tree canopy of this habitat consists of Eucalyptus loxophleba and E. wandoo, while the undergrowth includes species such as Kennedia prostrata, Jacksonia sp. and Dianella revoluta. The land that these plants are found on comprises private pasture and adjoining road reserves. The species is likely endemic to this area, because despite a number of surveys, it has not been discovered elsewhere.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grevillea humifusa 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.
