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Grevillea humilis

Grevillea humilis
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Grevillea humilis is a small, erect to spreading shrub from eastern Australia, with pink or white flowers, and the genus is widely grown in gardens. It suits well-drained, sunny sites in mild climates and tolerates dry conditions once established.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce to occasional deep watering; avoid waterlogged soil.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, low-fertility soil.
Temperature
10-30 °C; protect from frost below about -5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
CE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Grevillea humilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect to spreading shrub with narrowly elliptic to more or less linear leaves, and pink or white flowers.

Where it grows

Grevillea humilis occurs in the Glass House Mountains of South Eastern Queensland and south through the coast and nearby ranges of eastern New South Wales. Subspecies humilis grows in woodland in the Hunter region of New South Wales, inland as far as Scone. Subspecies lucens grows in open forest or woodland in the Glass House Mountains in Queensland and on the far New South Wales North Coast. Subspecies maritima grows in heath in rocky places in heath on the North Coast of New South Wales as far north as Bundjalung National Park.

Other Grevillea plants

Grevillea acacioides · Grevillea acanthifolia · Grevillea acerata · Grevillea acrobotrya · Grevillea acropogon · Grevillea acuaria · Grevillea adenotricha · Grevillea agrifolia · Grevillea albiflora · Catclaws Grevillea · Grevillea alpivaga · Grevillea althoferorum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grevillea humilis 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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